Definitions for Centaur
ˈsɛn tɔrcen·taur

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. centaurnoun

   (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse

2. Centaurus, Centaurnoun

   a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

2. centaurnoun

   An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune (also capitalized).

3. Centaurnoun

   One of a race of monsters having a head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.

4. Centaurnoun

   A skillful horseman or horsewoman.

5. Centaurnoun

   A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.

6. Centaurnoun

   An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune

7. Etymology: {ME}; Latin Centaurus; Greek (Kentauros); (Eng. usg. ca. 14c)

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Centaurnoun

   Etymology: centaurus, Lat.

   1. A poetical being, supposed to be compounded of a man and a horse.

   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.

   2. The archer in the zodiack.

   The chearless empire of the sky,
   To Capricorn, the Centaur archer yields. James Thomson.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Centaurnoun

   a fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse

2. Centaurnoun

   a constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross

3. Etymology: [L. centaurus, Gr. Ke`ntayros.]

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1. 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 DictionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. Centaur

   sen′tawr, n. a fabulous monster, half-man, half-horse.—adj. Centau′rian. [L.,—Gr. kentauros; ety. dub.]

MythologyRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. 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.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Centaur in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Centaur in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Centaur in a Sentence

1. Claudio Semini:

   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.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Centaur
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Centaur
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Centaur
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaur
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Centaur
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Centaur
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Centaur
9. ^ Mythology
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42474/pg42474-images.html#:~:text=Centaur