Definitions for Faun

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Spelling: [fawn]
IPA: /fɔn/

Faun is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Faun (afnu).

Definitions for Faun

noun

  1. one of a class of rural deities represented as men with the ears, horns, tail, and later also the hind legs of a goat.

Origin of Faun

1325-75; Middle English (Old French faune) Latin faunus; cf. Faunus

Examples for Faun

At last his eyes rested on the faun, and he remembered at once where he was.

I have been finishing the arm of the faun in that pavilion outside the town.

We hope our film Afternoon of a faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq illuminates the exceptional qualities of Tanny in dance and in life.

Jerome Robbins, also at NYCB, did the same, and she inspired him to create his radical Afternoon of the faun for her.

When they had calmed down a little, the faun said, "Can you dance?"

But the faun won the jumping contest because of the tremendous spring in his legs.

The man addressed was handsome as a faun might be and as a tiger is.

The palette was gentle and pretty, focusing on rose pinks, lavenders, dusky mauve, mint, faun and pale lemon.

The faun waved his pipes saucily at the Phoenix and gave a wry smile.

His descriptive letters to Badollet read like the “Idylls of a faun.”

Word Value for Faun
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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