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 Definitions of Fawn  [ɔn]  

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Definition of 'Fawn' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) fawn
a young deer, esp. an unweaned one.

2.  fawn
a light yellowish brown color.

3. (adj.) fawn
light yellowish brown.

4. (v.i.) fawn
(of a doe) to bring forth young.

5. (v.i.) fawn
to seek notice or favor by servile behavior; toady:
courtiers fawning over the king.

6.  fawn
(esp. of a dog) to behave affectionately.

Etymology:  (1890–95)

Definition of 'Fawn' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn
a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color
"she wore dun"

2. (verb) fawn
a young deer

3. (verb) fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel
show submission or fear

4. (verb) fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up
try to gain favor by cringing or flattering
"He is always kowtowing to his boss"

5. (verb) fawn
have fawns
"deer fawn"


Definition of 'Fawn' Webster Dictionary 

1. (adj) Fawn
of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored

2. (noun) Fawn
a young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck

3. (noun) Fawn
the young of an animal; a whelp

4. (noun) Fawn
a fawn color

5. (noun) Fawn
a servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy

6. (verb) Fawn
to bring forth a fawn

7. (verb) Fawn
to court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon


Translation of 'Fawn' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a young deer.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: jong hert, reebok Arabic flag Arabic: ظَبي، غَزال صَغير Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: еленче
Brazilian flag Brazilian: veado Czech flag Czech: kolouch German flag German: das Reh-, Damkitz
Danish flag Danish: dåkalv; rålam Greek flag Greek: ελαφάκι Spanish flag Spanish: cervato
Estonian flag Estonian: hirvevasikas Farsi flag Farsi: بچه آهو Finnish flag Finnish: vasa
French flag French: faon Hebrew flag Hebrew: עוֹפֶר Hindi flag Hindi: हिरणी का बच्चा, हिरनौटा
Croatian flag Croatian: lane Hungarian flag Hungarian: fiatalőz Indonesian flag Indonesian: rusa muda
Icelandic flag Icelandic: hindarkálfur Italian flag Italian: daino, cerbiatto Japanese flag Japanese: 子鹿
Korean flag Korean: 새끼 사슴 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: elniukas Latvian flag Latvian: jauns briedis
Malay flag Malay: anak rusa Dutch flag Dutch: jong hert Norwegian flag Norwegian: dåkalv
Polish flag Polish: jelonek Persian flag Persian: بچه آهو Pashto flag Pashto: د هوسی بچی
Portuguese flag Portuguese: veado/veadinho? cria de v Romanian flag Romanian: cerb tânăr Russian flag Russian: молодой олень
Slovak flag Slovak: srnča, srnčiatko Slovenian flag Slovenian: jelenček Serbian flag Serbian: lane
Swedish flag Swedish: hjortkalv, kid Thai flag Thai: ลูกกวาง Turkish flag Turkish: geyik/karaca yavrusu
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 幼鹿 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: оленя Urdu flag Urdu: ہرن کا بچہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: hươu, nai nhỏ Chinese flag Chinese: 幼鹿

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