Definitions for fauns

fauns faun

Spelling: [fawn]
IPA: /fɔn/

Fauns is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in fauns (afnsu).

Definitions for fauns

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 fauns

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

Examples for fauns

Jeremiah calls them fauns—the dragons with the fauns, which feed upon figs.

Their lives seemed linked to that of the trees, like those of fauns or Dryads.

It is an ideal medium with which to recreate the fauns, satyrs and nymphs of the garden.

Reference is made to fauns and naiads in Milton's "Lycidas."

Out of the way, fauns and Hamadryads, if any be left in the forest.

And fauns and nymphs and satyrs echoed that shout most joyously.

This race of fauns was the most delightful of all that antiquity imagined.

They were identical with fauns, Panes or Sylvani, the human-goat wood-spirits.

The place was fit for Spenser's Pan, with all his fauns and sylvans.

The fauns were handsome, gentle, innocent, and rather foolish.

Word Value for fauns
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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