(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.
Sagittarius
Definition:
(n.) The ninth of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about November 22, marked thus [/] in almanacs; the Archer.
(n.) A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chromosome studies of 1 species of Cariamidae and Sagittarius show great karyological differences and tend to dispel the suggestion of a possible relationship between the families.
(2) Burrows’ colleague Cecil Lewis, a former fighter pilot and author of Sagittarius Rising , gave a vivid account of its impact.
(3) Cecil Lewis, the first world war fighter pilot who wrote Sagittarius Rising, was its first organiser of programmes.
(4) It's a very specific late 60s that he evokes on his debut album, Cabinet of Curiosities: the ornate, lushly orchestrated, psych-inflected "soft rock" or "baroque pop" of British groups such as Nirvana and the Zombies, and American bands such as the Millennium and Sagittarius.