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Examples of faun in a Sentence
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The show includes a series of new sculptures of faun heads that hang from the ceiling.
—Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
Meaning: From the alder grove Alternative Spellings & Variations: Delany
Faun
A faun is a kind of mythical creature found in Pan’s Labyrinth.
—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
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Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Latin faunus, from Faunus
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of faun was
in the 14th century
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“Faun.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faun. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
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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