(n.) A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
(n.) A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.
Example Sentences:
(1) I won't dilate too much about the experience of seeing the marbles close up, which is something the ancient Greeks never did, because they were placed high on the Parthenon, but what is moving is the human detail of the sculptures – the snapshots of people turning round to see what's going on, struggling with a bullock that is about to get loose, and men expiring at the hooves of centaurs.
(2) She now sits on the executive committee of Centaur Media Plc.
(3) The Temple offers a kaleidoscope of incense-scented mayhem, where golden centaurs and exotic urns sprawl alongside zodiac drapes and musky shrines to the Virgin Mary, Lakshmi and other female icons.
(4) 2016 has seen Suki activate her entrepreneurial transformative leadership with her own business, when she led Oystercatchers into partnership with business innovator, Centaur Media to create an international leading consultancy in the marketing sector.
(5) On 30 May 1971, Mariner 9 was dispatched to Mars on an Atlas Centaur rocket and in November that year slipped into orbit around the Red Planet.
(6) She believes that the core audience that reads Centaur's business-to-business titles – which include Creative Review and Marketing Week – is well-placed to cash in on advertisers wanting relatively affluent, educated readers.
(7) A s unlikely-sounding hybrids go, a fun protest against hunger in the developing world must rank up there with the centaur and the griffin.
(8) Gandharan art used motifs borrowed from classical Roman art, with its vine scrolls, cherubs and centaurs, but its principal icon was a handsome, languid, meditating Buddha, dressed in a Greek toga.
(9) Like Rich and Byng-Maddick, Centaur Media's chief executive Andria Vidler is new to the job and has not pulled her punches.
Faun
Definition:
(n.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
Example Sentences:
(1) You don't really start having teenage crushes when you're a teenager – those feelings start much earlier, although you're too much of a wide-eyed faun to properly identify what they are.
(2) 1.1.1.14) was studied in liver, kidney and gonads of Zenaida auriculata auriculata (golden pigeon) and of Anas platyrhynchos (creole domestic duck) from South American faunes.
(3) Faune et écosystèmes frappés par des impacts « sévères » et « généralisés ».
(4) London , Friday night If a faun could go through a needle's eye it would come out looking rather like Yves Saint-Laurent.
(5) See also Les Ballets C de la B Pina Bausch Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker Now watch this A witty "composite creature" from D'Avant (2002) Sutra, with the Shaolin monks of China (2008) Apocrifu (2009) on religion and the power of the word Excerpts from Orbo Novo, "an old word for the New World", (2009) Dunas, a duet with flamenco dancer María Pagés (2009) Where to see him next Cherkaoui's Faune is part of the Spirit of Diaghilev programme on BBC4 at 7.45pm on 18 December 2009.
(6) A lengthy story in the New York Times announced him as “one of the most celebrated stage actors of his generation”, adding that “his calling card is a soulful fragility, all faun-like bearing and saucer eyes, with a teenager’s unruly mop mane”.
(7) The employment of a CDC light trap proved to be a useful tool in determining the local faune.
(8) If it disappears, all the other wildlife will go too," says Jean-Paul Burget, who set up the Sauvegarde Faune Sauvage organisation in 1993 in an attempt to save the species, subsequently lodging a complaint with the European commission in 2007.