Definitions for centaurs

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centaurs cen·taur

Spelling: [sen-tawr]

IPA: /ˈsɛn tɔr/

Centaurs is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 541 anagrams from letters in centaurs (acenrstu).

Definitions for centaurs

noun

1. Classical Mythology. one of a race of monsters having the head, trunk, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse.
2. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. the constellation Centaurus.
3. a skillful horseman or horsewoman.
4. (initial capital letter) Rocketry. a U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.

Origin of centaurs

1325-75; Middle English, Old English Latin centaurus Greek kéntauros

Examples for centaurs

The centaurs were mythical creatures which inhabited Thessaly.

Contests with the Amazons and battles with the centaurs form the subject of the whole.

Swift no doubt took his idea of the men-horses from centaurs.

Standing quite upright in the stirrups they looked like centaurs.

The age of chivalry has its legend in the centaurs and Cheiron.

And then there were the satyrs and centaurs, and suchlike beings.

There also is the hill Taphiassus, on which is the monument of Nessus, and of the other centaurs.

The most beautiful and youthful of the centaurs was Cyllarus.

It was as if the Lapith and centaurs had got together by the ears.

centaurs would grow comet-like tails if they fell closer toward the Sun.