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Meaning: From the alder grove Alternative Spellings & Variations: Delany
Faun
A faun is a kind of mythical creature found in Pan’s Labyrinth.
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Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
The beggar and the faun were the two figures damaged, President of the City of Fountains Foundation Mark McHenry said in an interview with The Star.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2024
Part of a fountain, the reclining sculpture of the faun Silenus was commissioned by merchant Alessandro Grandi around 1576.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2024
Rogowski, who threw a mean shape or two in such films as Disco Boy and Passages, also contributes a very physical performance, cavorting around Gravesend like a shy woodland faun or fowl.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
The teaser doesn’t show too much, except a glimpse of a faun, and perhaps a menacing minotaur, two fixtures from the mythical world of Greek gods.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
His faun-like tail?
—Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 7 May 2022
Here, though, all the dancers are the faun and their attention locks not on a nymph but on us.
—Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
On the cover: What comes to mind in seeing Christopher Smith’s self-portrait as a faun?
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 24 June 2021
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Taylor Grothe, Parents, 9 Oct. 2024
The beggar and the faun were the two figures damaged, President of the City of Fountains Foundation Mark McHenry said in an interview with The Star.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 1 June 2024
Part of a fountain, the reclining sculpture of the faun Silenus was commissioned by merchant Alessandro Grandi around 1576.
—Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2024
Rogowski, who threw a mean shape or two in such films as Disco Boy and Passages, also contributes a very physical performance, cavorting around Gravesend like a shy woodland faun or fowl.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
The teaser doesn’t show too much, except a glimpse of a faun, and perhaps a menacing minotaur, two fixtures from the mythical world of Greek gods.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 18 Aug. 2023
His faun-like tail?
—Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 7 May 2022
Here, though, all the dancers are the faun and their attention locks not on a nymph but on us.
—Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2023
On the cover: What comes to mind in seeing Christopher Smith’s self-portrait as a faun?
—Amy Verner, Vogue, 24 June 2021
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“Faun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faun. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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faun
noun
ˈfȯn 
ˈfän
: a figure in Roman mythology dwelling in the country and represented as part goat and part man
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