centaurnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈsen.tɔːr/us/ˈsen.tɔːr/a creature in ancient Greek stories that has a human's upper body and the lower body and legs of a horse
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Mythology: Greek & Roman myth
- ambrosia
- Aphrodite
- Apollo
- Ares
- Artemis
- Cyclops
- Dionysus
- fate
- gorgon
- Hades
- harpy
- Hera
- Neptune
- Nike
- nymph
- Orpheus
- Pleiades
- the Fates idiom
- Victoria
- Zeus
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Examples from literature
- For instance, the fable of the centaur was invented to show, by the union of man and horse, the swiftness of human life.
- She imagined a determined Hungarian prairie, over which dashed disordered centaurs brandishing clubs, driving before them a band of satyrs and leaping fauns.
- The centaur of olden times, part horse and part man, seems to be a suggestion of the fact that the horse is something more than a beast.
- The design was made in hammered silver, and showed centaurs talking to cupids that are sitting on their backs.