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–noun Classical Mythology.
one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME (< OF faune) < L faunus; cf. Faunus]

faunlike, adjective
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n.   Roman Mythology
Any of a group of rural deities represented as having the body of a man and the horns, ears, tail, and sometimes legs of a goat.


[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin Faunus, Faunus.]

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faun 
c.1374, from L. Faunus, a god of the countryside, worshipped especially by farmers and shepherds, equivalent of Gk. Pan. Formerly men with goat horns and tails, later with goat legs, which caused them to be assimilated to satyrs. The plural is fauni.

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faun

noun
ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr 

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faun [foːn] noun
an imaginary creature, half man and half goat
Arabic: مَخلوق خُرافي نِصفُه إنسان ونِصْفُه ماعِز
Chinese (Simplified): 半人半羊的农牧神
Chinese (Traditional): 半人半羊的農牧神
Czech: faun
Danish: faun
Dutch: faun
Estonian: faun
Finnish: fauni
French: faune
German: der Faun
Greek: σάτυρος
Hungarian: faun
Icelandic: fáni, skógarpúki
Indonesian: dewa hutan
Italian: fauno
Japanese: フォーン
Korean: 로마 신화에 나오는 반인 반양(半人半羊)의 동물
Latvian: fauns
Lithuanian: faunas
Norwegian: faun
Polish: faun
Portuguese (Brazil): fauno
Portuguese (Portugal): fauno
Romanian: faun
Russian: фавн
Slovak: faun
Slovenian: favn
Spanish: fauno
Swedish: faun
Turkish: orman ve kır ilâhı
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Faun

Faun\, n. [L. Faunus, fr. favere to be favorable. See Favor.] (Rom. Myth.) A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.

Satyr or Faun, or Sylvan. --Milton.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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