fauns

Cultural  

1. The Roman name for satyrs, mythical creatures who were part man and part goat.

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Example Sentences

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 • Jul. 21, 2022

He has begun the long work of cataloging the statues who inhabit each room, classical-style representations of fauns, men fighting beasts, or children at play.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2020

On a technical level, are the fauns are the toughest creature makeup for the actors?

From The Verge • Sep. 10, 2019

You can imagine its dancers as dragonflies, fauns, larks — though any such illusions or allusions come and go.

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2017

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 "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan