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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
silenus is a noun meaning "any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs)
the chief satyr in the service of Bacchus; father of Dionysus; usually depicted as drunk and jolly and riding a donkey
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for silenus come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.