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faun [fɔːn] n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) (in Roman legend) a rural deity represented as a man with a goat's ears, horns, tail, and hind legs [back formation from Faunes (plural), from Latin Faunus] faunlike adj ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Translations faun n (Myth) → Faun m n faun [foːn] an imaginary creature, half man and half goat. faun, sater, veldgod مَخلوق خُرافي نِصفُه إنسان ونِصْفُه ماعِز фавн faun faun der Faun σάτυρος fauno faun اسطورۀ رومی فان fauni faune פָּן वन देवता, ग्राम देवता faun faun dewa hutan fáni, skógarpúki fauno フォーン [로마신화] 파우누스 faunas fauns sejenis dewa hutan faun faun faun fauno faun фавн faun favn šumski bog faun ฟอน สิ่งมีชีวิตในจินตนาการที่มีลำตัวเป็นคน หูแหลม มีเขา หางและขาหลังเป็นแพะ orman ve kır ilâhı 半人半羊的農牧神 фавн خیالی حیوان جو آدھا آدمی اور آدھا بکرا ہوتا ہے thần đồng áng 半人半羊的农牧神 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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He seemed to partake of those obscure forces of nature which the Greeks personified in shapes part human and part beast, the satyr and the faun. This I waded, and went up the opposite side of the valley, past a number of sleeping houses, and by a statue--a Faun, or some such figure, MINUS the head. Let the reader picture to himself a series of visages presenting successively all geometrical forms, from the triangle to the trapezium, from the cone to the polyhedron; all human expressions, from wrath to lewdness; all ages, from the wrinkles of the new-born babe to the wrinkles of the aged and dying; all religious phantasmagories, from Faun to Beelzebub; all animal profiles, from the maw to the beak, from the jowl to the muzzle. |
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