Centaur

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  • noun. One of a race of monsters having the head, arms, and trunk of a man and the body and legs of a horse.
  • noun. Any of a group of icy asteroids that orbit the sun primarily in the region between Jupiter and Neptune, whose orbits they cross. Some centaurs appear to be more like comets than asteroids.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In Greek myth, a monster, half man and half horse, descended from Ixion and Nephele, the cloud.
  • noun. The constellation Centaurus.
  • noun. In heraldry See sagittary.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fabulous being, represented as half man and half horse.
  • noun. A constellation in the southern heavens between Hydra and the Southern Cross.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A mythical beast having a horse's body with a human head and torso in place of the head and neck of the horse.
  • noun. An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune (also capitalized).
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross
  • noun. (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
    • Word Usage
    "˜Some centaur does not have a tail™ to be contradictories, but both to be false because the subject-term ˜centaur™ is empty."
    cross-reference
    centauress  centaurette  centaurial  centaurian  centauric  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    constellation  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Mentor  mentor  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Gypsy  dragon  drow  elf  goblin  
    Synonym
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    hippocentaur  
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