faun

American  

[fawn] / fɔn /

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.

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faun British  

/ fɔːn /

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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Other Word Forms

• faunlike adjective

Etymology

Origin of faun

1325–75; Middle English (< Old French faune ) < Latin faunus; Faunus

Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

“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.

From New York Times

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.”

From Los Angeles Times

The deer were fauns who bowed to her over their hooves.

From Literature

It made Jason wonder about the fauns back at Camp Jupiter—whether they could be like that if the Roman demigods expected more from them.

From Literature