Faun

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A god of fields and shipherds, diddering little from the satyr. The fauns are usually represented as half goat and half man.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In Roman mythology, one of a class of demigods or rural deities, sometimes confounded with satyrs.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr
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    satyr   
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    sylph    nymph    bawl    dryad    satyr    fay    Gorgon    sprite    hamadryad    Sphynx