Centaur Definition

sĕntôr
centaurs
noun
Any of a race of monsters with a man's head, trunk, and arms, and a horse's body and legs.
Webster's New World
Any of a group of icy asteroids that orbit the sun primarily in the region between Jupiter and Neptune, whose orbits they cross. Some centaurs appear to be more like comets than asteroids.
American Heritage

A skillful horseman or horsewoman.

Wiktionary

(rocketry) A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
idiom
the Centaur
  • the constellation Centaurus
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Centaur

Noun

Singular:
centaur
Plural:
centaurs

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Centaur

  • the Centaur

Origin of Centaur

  • Middle English from Latin Centaurus from Greek Kentauros Sense 2, from the official convention of naming such objects after the centaurs of Greek mythology, a practice derived from the fact that the first such object to be observed was named after Chiron

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kentauros), from Κένταυρος (Kentauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).

    From Wiktionary

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