Faun

Definition: Faun

Faun

Noun

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

Date "faun" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Etymology: Faun \Faun\, noun. [Latin expression Faunus, from favere to be favorable. See Favor.]. (Websters 1913)

Specialty Definitions: Faun

Domain	Definitions
Health	A congenital anomaly of the auricle in which there is failure in the development of the helix. (references)
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Specialty Definition: Faun

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

In Roman mythology, fauns were place-spirits (genii) of untamed woodland. Romans connected their fauns with the Greek satyrs, wild and orgiastic drunken followers of Dionysus.

The Barberini Faun (Glyptothek, Munich, Germany) is a Hellenistic marble, ca 200 BCE that was found in the Mausoleum of the Emperor Hadrian (the Castel Sant'Angelo) and installed at Palazzo Barberini by Cardinal Maffeo Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII, the patron of Bernini, who heavily restored and refinished it, so that its present 'Hellenistic baroque' aspect may be enhanced.

The Marble Faun, (1860), is a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, set in Rome. The faun of the title epitomizes the natural, carefree Count Donatello: 'Our friend Donatello is the very Faun of Praxiteles. Is it not true, Hilda?' is the opening remark as four young art-minded friends gather in the sculture-gallery in the Capitoline Museum at Rome. 'In truth, allowing for the difference of costume, and if a lion`s skin could have been substituted for his modern talma, and a rustic pipe for his stick, Donatello might have figured perfectly as the marble Faun, miraculously softened into flesh and blood,' Hawthorne allows. Later, Donatello's murderous crime of passion will destroy him and transform the other characters. (The 'Faun of Praxiteles', as Hawthorne describes it, is an imaginary sculpture loosely based on Praxiteles' Hermes.)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Faun."

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Synonyms within Context: Faun

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Demon	Merman, mermaid, merfolk; siren; satyr, faun; manito, manitou, manitu.
Flattery	Verb: flatter, praise to the skies, puff; wheedle, cajole, glaver, coax; fawn upon, faun upon; humor, gloze, soothe, pet, coquet, slaver, butter; jolly; bespatter, beslubber, beplaster, beslaver; lay it on thick, overpraise; earwig, cog, collogue; truckle to, pander to, pandar to, suck up to, kiss the ass of, pay court to; court; creep into the good graces of, curry favor with, hang on the sleeve of; fool to the top of one;s bent; lick the dust.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Faun

English words defined with "faun": Fig faun. (references)

Specialty definitions using "faun": faun ear ♦ satyr. (references)

Etymologies containing "faun": Fauna. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Faun" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Albanian (faun), Czech (faun), German (faun), Hungarian (faun), Romanian (faun), Serbo-Croatian (faun), Swedish (faun).

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Modern Usage: Faun

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Faun (1917)
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Commercial Usage: Faun

Domain	Title
Books	Faun & Games (reference) Nathaniel Hawthorne : Collected Novels: Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun (Library of America) (reference) Nijinsky: Death of a Faun (reference) The Marble Faun (reference) The Marble Faun - Volume I [DOWNLOAD: MICROSOFT READER] (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Debussy: La Mer & Prelude... Faun; Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe Suite #2 (1978) (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Afternoon of a Georgia Faun [IMPORT] (reference) Faun (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Faun

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Non-Fiction Usage: Faun

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	SATYR, n. One of the few characters of the Grecian mythology accorded recognition in the Hebrew. (Leviticus, xvii, 7.) The satyr was at first a member of the dissolute community acknowledging a loose allegiance with Dionysius, but underwent many transformations and improvements. Not infrequently he is confounded with the faun, a later and decenter creation of the Romans, who was less like a man and more like a goat.
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Usage Frequency: Faun

"Faun" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Faun" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	90%	9	117,287
Unclassified Items	10%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	10	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Faun

Expressions using "faun": faun ear ♦ Fig faun. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "faun": faun-like.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Faun

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
faun	36
the marble faun	12
afternoon faun prelude	9
afternoon of a faun	6
elefant faun	4
barberini faun	3
faun lake	2
house of faun	2
faun goliath	2
afternoon debussy faun prelude	2
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Modern Translations: Faun

Language		Translations for "faun"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		faun, satir (satyr). (various references)

Arabic		‏فون آلهة الحقول والقطعان عند الرومان. (various references)

Bulgarian		фавн. (various references)

Czech		faun. (various references)

Danish		satyroere (faun ear). (various references)

Dutch		satyroor (faun ear). (various references)

French		faune (fauna). (various references)

German		faun. (various references)

Hebrew		פאו� וס, א�"ם תיש. (various references)

Hungarian		faun. (various references)

Italian		fauno. (various references)

Manx		faanys (breach, breach in hedge, gap). (various references)

Pig Latin		aunfay

Portuguese		imperfeito (crude, defective, imperfect, imperial, inchoate, incomprehensibility, incorrectly, lacerated, lame, ragged, seamy, unfinished). (various references)

Romanian		faun. (various references)

Russian		фавн. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		faun. (various references)

Spanish		fauno. (various references)

Swedish		faun. (various references)

Thai		เทพเจ้าโรมันที่มีลำตัวเป็นคน หูแหลม มีเขา หางและขาหลังเป็นแพะ. (various references)

Turkish		yarı keçi yarı insan orman tanrısı. (various references)

Ukranian		фавн. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Faun

Derivations
	Words beginning with "faun": fauna, faunae, faunal, faunally, faunas, faunistic, faunistically, faunlike, fauns. (additional references)
	Words containing "faun": avifauna, avifaunae, avifaunal, avifaunas, entomofauna, entomofaunae, entomofaunas, epifauna, epifaunae, epifaunal, epifaunas, ichthyofauna, ichthyofaunae, ichthyofaunal, ichthyofaunas, infauna, infaunae, infaunal, infaunas, megafauna, megafaunae, megafaunal, megafaunas, microfauna, microfaunae, microfaunal, microfaunas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Faun" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: afan, afen, afin, afon, afu, Afuu, aun, baun, faa'n, fadun, fagun, fahn, Faini, Faiq, famn, fann, fanp, fapn, Farn, fasu, fatum, fau, faud, faug, faul, faum, faund, faung, faunt, faup, fauq, faur, faus, faut, faxu, fayn, Fayum, fazn, Feau, Fehn, Fejn, feon, feuo, feuv, Feux, finu, fium, flaun, flaune, flun, Fonu, foun, founf, founr, fraum, frun, fsu, fuag, fuax, fuhn, funn, raun, yaun. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Faun"

Words ending with "aun": Daun. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Faun

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-n-u"
	-1 letter: fan, fun.
	-2 letters: an, fa, na, nu, un.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-n-u"
	+1 letter: fanum, fauna, fauns, furan, snafu.
	+2 letters: canful, fanums, faunae, faunal, faunas, flaunt, fungal, funkia, furane, furans, fusain, manful, panful, snafus, unfair, unsafe.
	+3 letters: antiflu, antifur, baneful, canfuls, cansful, flaneur, flaunts, flaunty, fraenum, frenula, funeral, funfair, fungals, funkias, furanes, furnace, fusains, fustian, gainful, hafnium, handful, infauna, moanful, outfawn, painful, panfuls, ruffian, snafued, sunfast, tankful, turfman, unfaded, unfaith, unfaked, unfancy, unfazed, uniface.
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