centaurˈsɛn tɔr
centaur (n)
English Definitions:
centaur (noun)
(classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
Centaurus, Centaur (noun)
a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross
centaur (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.
centaur (Noun)
An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune (also capitalized).
Centaur (Noun)
One of a race of monsters having a head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
Centaur (Noun)
A skillful horseman or horsewoman.
Centaur (Noun)
A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.
Centaur (Noun)
An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune
Centaur
A centaur or hippocentaur is a mythological creature with the head, arms, and torso of a human and the body and legs of a horse. In early Attic and Beotian vase-paintings, they are depicted with the hindquarters of a horse attached to them; in later renderings centaurs are given the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be. This half-human and half-horse composition has led many writers to treat them as liminal beings, caught between the two natures, embodied in contrasted myths, both as the embodiment of untamed nature, as in their battle with the Lapiths, or conversely as teachers, like Chiron. The centaurs were usually said to have been born of Ixion and Nephele. Another version, however, makes them children of a certain Centaurus, who mated with the Magnesian mares. This Centaurus was either himself the son of Ixion and Nephele or of Apollo and Stilbe, daughter of the river god Peneus. In the later version of the story his twin brother was Lapithes, ancestor of the Lapiths, thus making the two warring peoples cousins.
Centaur
A centaur ( SEN-tor, SEN-tar; Ancient Greek: κένταυρος, romanized: kéntauros; Latin: centaurus), or occasionally hippocentaur, is a creature from Greek mythology with the upper body of a human and the lower body and legs of a horse.Centaurs are thought of in many Greek myths as being as wild as untamed horses, and were said to have inhabited the region of Magnesia and Mount Pelion in Thessaly, the Foloi oak forest in Elis, and the Malean peninsula in southern Laconia. Centaurs are subsequently featured in Roman mythology, and were familiar figures in the medieval bestiary. They remain a staple of modern fantastic literature.
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