silenus

1. 1.

   any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs)

   BroaderGreek deity
2. 2.

   the chief satyr in the service of Bacchus; father of Dionysus; usually depicted as drunk and jolly and riding a donkey

   Broadersatyr

Other forms of silenus

plural

silenuses·

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.

Questions about silenus

What does silenus mean?

silenus means "any of the minor woodland deities who were companions of Dionysus (similar to the satyrs)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in silenus?

silenus has 3 syllables: si-le-nus. The stress falls on "si".

Is silenus a common word?

silenus 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.