centaur
pronunciation
How to pronounce centaur in British English:
UK [ˈsentɔ:(r)]
How to pronounce centaur in American English:
US [ˈsɛnˌtɔr]
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- Noun:
- (classical mythology) a mythical being that is half man and half horse
Word Origin
- centaur (n.)
- late 14c., from Latin centaurus, from Greek Kentauros, origin disputed. In early Greek literature they were a savage, horse-riding tribe from Thessaly; later they were monsters half horse, half man. The southern constellation of Centaurus is attested in English from 1550s but was known by that name to the Romans and known as a centaur to the Greeks. It has often been confused since classical times with Sagittarius.
Example
- 1. Sr. romar is the centaur that leads our knight force .
- 2. No cloud showed up at first causing some scientists to worry that the centaur had hit rock .
- 3. But the centaur drove off all the game in this region , and I cannot allow my people to starve .
- 4. Using data from the spectrometers on lcross , which examine light emitted or absorbed by materials , nasa scientists were able to analyse the plume of dust after its centaur rocket hit the moon 's surface .
- 5. But members of the scientific team became excited when they started looking at the data transmitted back to earth just before the satellite crashed as planned a short distance from centaur .