Definisjon av centaur

Vi fant 8 definisjoner av centaur på engelsk.

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Noun
centaur - (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
		mythical creature, mythical monster a monster renowned in folklore and myth
		classical mythology the system of mythology of the Greeks and Romans together; much of Roman mythology (especially the gods) was borrowed from the Greeks
centaur - a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross
		Centaurus, Centaur
		alpha centauri, rigil, rigil kent brightest star in Centaurus; second nearest star to the sun
		beta centauri the second brightest star in Centaurus
		omega centauri a global cluster in the constellation Centaurus

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centaur - One of a race of monsters having a head, torso, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse. Often depicted as rowdy drunkards, with Chiron being a notable exception.
centaur - A skillful horseman or horsewoman.
centaur - A U. S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.
centaur - An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune.

The centaurs are a composite race of creatures, part human and part horse. In early Attic and Boeotian vase-paintings, as on the kantharos (illustrated below left), 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-animal 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.

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