What does centaur mean?
Definitions for centaur
ˈsɛn tɔrcen·taur
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word centaur.
Princeton's WordNet
centaurnoun
(classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
Centaurus, Centaurnoun
a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross
Wiktionary
centaurnoun
A mythical beast having a horse's body with a human head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
centaurnoun
An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune (also capitalized).
Centaurnoun
One of a race of monsters having a head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
Centaurnoun
A skillful horseman or horsewoman.
Centaurnoun
A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.
Centaurnoun
An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune
Etymology: {ME}; Latin Centaurus; Greek (Kentauros); (Eng. usg. ca. 14c)
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Centaurnoun
Etymology: centaurus, Lat.
Down from the waste they are centaurs, though women all above. William Shakespeare, King Lear.
The idea of a centaur has no more falsehood in it, than the name centaur. John Locke.
Feats, Thessalian centaurs never knew,
And their repeated wonders shake the dome. James Thomson.The chearless empire of the sky,
To Capricorn, the Centaur archer yields. James Thomson.
Wikipedia
Centaur
A centaur ( SEN-tor, SEN-tar; Ancient Greek: κένταυρος, romanized: kéntauros; Latin: centaurus), or occasionally hippocentaur, is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse.Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being as wild as untamed horses, and were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, the Foloi oak forest in Elis, and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia. Centaurs are subsequently featured in Roman mythology, and were familiar figures in the medieval bestiary. They remain a staple of modern fantastic literature.
ChatGPT
centaur
A centaur is a mythological creature from Greek mythology, depicted as having the upper body of a human and the lower body, including four legs, of a horse. They are often portrayed as wild, lustful, or wise but their characteristics may vary in different stories or representations.
Webster Dictionary
Centaurnoun
a fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse
Centaurnoun
a constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross
Etymology: [L. centaurus, Gr. Ke`ntayros.]
Wikidata
Centaur
A centaur or hippocentaur is a mythological creature with the head, arms, and torso of a human and the body and legs of a horse. In early Attic and Beotian vase-paintings, they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse attached to them; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be. This half-human and half-horse composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron. The centaurs were usually said to have been born of Ixion and Nephele. Another version, however, makes them children of a certain Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. This Centaurus was either himself the son of Ixion and Nephele or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the later version of the story his twin brother was Lapithes, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Centaur
sen′tawr, n. a fabulous monster, half-man, half-horse.—adj. Centau′rian. [L.,—Gr. kentauros; ety. dub.]
Mythology
Centaur
(Cen′taur). A huntsman who had the forepart like a man, and the remainder of the body like a horse. The Centauri lived in Thessaly.
Matched Categories
Anagrams for centaur »
uncrate
untrace
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of centaur in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of centaur in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of centaur in a Sentence
For us, it was natural to start to design also an arm, and then the plan is to build two arms and have them both on the robot to create a 'centaur' style of robot. And with the two arms the robot can be deployed to the real area where it needs to do any maintenance work or turn a valve in a rescue scenario or pick up a sample in a contaminated area or just clean up radioactive materials; there's a lot of potential future applications where manipulation is really important.
Popularity rank by frequency of use
References
Translations for centaur
From our Multilingual Translation Dictionary
- кентавърBulgarian
- centaureCatalan, Valencian
- souhvězdí Kentaura, KentaurCzech
- dynfarchWelsh
- kentaurDanish
- Zentaur, KentaurGerman
- centaŭroEsperanto
- centauroSpanish
- kentauriFinnish
- centaureFrench
- ceinteárIrish
- centauroGalician
- kentaurHungarian
- կենտավրոսArmenian
- centauroIdo
- ケンタウルス族, 人馬, ケンタウロス, ケンタウルスJapanese
- centaurusLatin
- सेंटॉरMarathi
- kentaurNorwegian
- kentaur, centaur, paardmensDutch
- kentaurNorwegian Nynorsk
- kentaurNorwegian
- centauroPortuguese
- кентаврRussian
- centaurusSlovak
- kentaurSwedish
- kentauroSwahili
- käntorVolapük
Get even more translations for centaur »
Translation
Find a translation for the centaur definition in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Word of the Day
Would you like us to send you a FREE new word definition delivered to your inbox daily?
Citation
Use the citation below to add this definition to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"centaur." Definitions.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 28 Apr. 2024. <https://www.definitions.net/definition/centaur>.
Discuss these centaur definitions with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In