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  • 41Faun (band) — Infobox musical artist Name = Faun Img capt = Faun logo Img size = Landscape = no Background = group or band Birth name = Alias = Born = Died = Origin = Instrument = Genre = Pagan folk Darkwave Occupation = Years active = 1998 present Label =… …

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  • 42faun — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin faunus, from Faunus Date: 14th century a figure in Roman mythology similar to but gentler than the satyr …

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  • 43faun — faunlike, adj. /fawn/, n. Class. Myth. one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat. [1325 75; ME ( < OF faune) < L faunus; cf. FAUNUS] * * * …

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  • 44faun — noun A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. Syn: satyr …

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  • 45faun — Synonyms and related words: Cailleac, Faunus, Pan, Priapus, Vidar, Vitharr, corn spirit, fertility god, field spirit, forest god, panisc, panisca, paniscus, satyr, silenus, sylvan deity, the goat god, vegetation spirit …

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  • 46faun — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. woodland deity, satyr, man and goat; see fairy …

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  • 47faun — fawn …

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  • 48faun — fɔːn n. one of a class of rural deities having the body of a man and the horns legs and tail of a goat …

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  • 49faun — [fɔ:n] noun Roman Mythology a lustful rural god represented as a man with a goat s horns, ears, legs, and tail. Origin ME: from the name of the pastoral god Faunus …

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  • 50faun — (My). Faunus, god of agriculture and the shepherdsfav, o, «us (L). A honeycombfavill, «a (L). Embers …

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