Usually means: Ancient Greek satyr, music myth.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Marsyas: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Marsyas: Wordnik
  3. Marsyas: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. MARSYAS: Dictionary.com
  5. Marsyas (disambiguation), Marsyas (sculpture), Marsyas: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Marsyas: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  7. Marsyas, Marsyas: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. MARSYAS: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Marsyas: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Marsyas)

noun:  In Greek mythology, the satyr Marsyas is a central figure in two stories involving music: in one, he picked up the double oboe (aulos) that had been abandoned by Athena and played it;The folk of Celaenae held "that the Song of the Mother, an air for the flute, was composed by Marsyas", according to Pausanias (x.30.9).
noun:  a satyr who had a music contest with Apollo.
noun:  (also known as Marsyas II, 1940–30 May 1964) a French Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
noun:  a 150-meter-long, ten storey high sculpture designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond.
noun:  a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, found in South America.

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