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Definition of Centaur

1. Noun. (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse.

2. Noun. A conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross.

Definition of Centaur

1. n. A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.

Definition of Centaur

1. Noun. (Greek mythology) One of a race of monsters having a head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse. ¹

2. Noun. A skillful horseman or horsewoman. ¹

3. Noun. (context rocketry) A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes. ¹

4. Noun. (astronomy) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune ¹

5. Noun. (Greek mythology) A mythical beast having a horse's body with a human head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse. ¹

6. Noun. (astronomy) An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune (also capitalized). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Centaur

1. a mythological creature [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Centaur

Celticizes Celticizing Celtis Celtis australis Celtis laevigata Celtis occidentalis Celto-Germanic Celtogermanic Celts Cenchrus

Cenchrus ciliaris Cenchrus tribuloides Cenozoic Cenozoic era Census Bureau Centaur (current term) Centaurea Centaurea americana Centaurea cineraria Centaurea cyanus

Centaurea gymnocarpa Centaurea imperialis Centaurea moschata Centaurea nigra Centaurea scabiosa Centaurea solstitialis Centauria calcitrapa Centaurium Centaurium calycosum Centaurium minus

Literary usage of Centaur

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"ZEUXIS of old a female Centaur drew, To show his art; and then expos'd to view: ... Like to this Centaur, by his own relation, Is doctor Warburton's Divine ..."

2. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"There is a conventional model of the centaur, and these three statues are ... The hands of the centaur are, however, bound instead of being clasped, ..."

3. The Pageant by Charles Hazelwood Shannon, Gleeson White (1896)
"PALLAS AND THE Centaur AFTER A PICTURE BY BOTTICELLI ' Centaur, sweet Centaur, ... Centaur, sweet Centaur, scatter far the dew! Round the grey sea, ..."

4. A History of Ancient Sculpture by Wright Mitchell, Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1883)
"Here two women have fled to an idol One, fallen on her knees, and with one arm thrown around its stiff form, is already seized by a lusting centaur, ..."

5. The Temple of Apollo Bassitas by Frederick A. Cooper (1996)
"The rightward movement of the divine pair continues in the woman, the first centaur, and the hoplite on the slab at the corner, BM 522 (PI. 42). ..."

6. The Thousand and One Quarters of an Hour: (Tartarian Tales) by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, Leonard C. Smithers (1893)
"He has come, continued she, to throw himself at my feet in order to obtain your permission to fight with the blue centaur, which will ..."

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