forest god

1. 1.

   one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns

   Synonymssatyr

   BroaderGreek deity

   NarrowerSilenus

Questions about forest god

What does forest god mean?

forest god means "one of a class of woodland deities; attendant on Bacchus; identified with Roman fauns".

What is another word for forest god?

Close synonyms include satyr. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is forest god a common word?

forest god is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.