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faun

[ fawn ]

noun

Classical Mythology.
  1. one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.


faun

/ ɔː /

noun

  1. (in Roman legend) a rural deity represented as a man with a goat's ears, horns, tail, and hind legs
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Derived Forms

  • ˈڲܲˌ, adjective
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ڲܲl adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of faun1

1325–75; Middle English (< Old French faune ) < Latin faunus; Faunus
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of faun1

C14: back formation from Faunes (plural), from Latin Faunus
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Example Sentences

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Here, though, all the dancers are the faun and their attention locks not on a nymph but on us.

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“The certificate is a fake, ditto the signature, ditto the spelling, ditto the drawing,” she told The New York Times in reference to one of the works, a drawing of a faun.

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But little actually felt contemporary in this lollipops program of swans and fauns that, musically at least, might have been one of those old-timey Hollywood Bowl “Rhapsody Under the Stars.”

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I would see the fauns arriving soundlessly, settling themselves in a graceful ring around the sycamore’s trunk.

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One was a faun—no, Jason thought—a satyr.

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