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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024u•ni•corn /ˈyunɪˌkɔrn/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Mythologyan imaginary creature resembling a horse, with a single horn in the center of its forehead.
See -uni-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024u•ni•corn (yo̅o̅′ni kôrn′),USA pronunciation n. - Mythologya mythical creature resembling a horse, with a single horn in the center of its forehead: often symbolic of chastity or purity.
- Heraldrya heraldic representation of this animal, in the form of a horse with a lion's tail and with a long, straight, and spirally twisted horn.
- Astronomy(cap.) the constellation Monoceros.
- Biblean animal mentioned in the Bible, Deut. 33:17: now believed by some to be a description of a wild ox or rhinoceros.
- Currencya former gold coin of Scotland, first issued by James III in 1486, having an obverse bearing the figure of a unicorn.
- Latin ūnicornis one-horned, equivalent. to uni- uni- + corn(ū) horn + -is adjective, adjectival suffix
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- Middle English unicorne (1175–1225
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: unicorn /ˈjuːnɪˌkɔːn/ n - an imaginary creature usually depicted as a white horse with one long spiralled horn growing from its forehead
- a two-horned animal, thought to be either the rhinoceros or the aurochs (Deuteronomy 33:17): mistranslation in the Authorized Version of the original Hebrew
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French unicorne, from Latin ūnicornis one-horned, from ūnus one + cornu a horn |