unicorn
A mythical, horselike creature with a horn on its forehead, supposed to be extremely…A mythical, horselike creature with a horn on its forehead, supposed to be extremely rare and to be drawn to virgins and other chaste maidens.
» Tom believes that unicorns are real.
Tom glaubt, dass es Einhörner wirklich gibt.
Том вірить, що єдинороги існують.
Meaning
15 sensesA mythical, horselike creature with a horn on its forehead, supposed to be extremely rare and to be drawn to virgins and other chaste maidens.
Einhorn
единоро́гjedinoróg
єдинорі́гjedynoríh
an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead
In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.
Certain animals:
Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.
A caterpillar, Schizura unicornis, with a large thorn-like spine on the back near its head.
The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
A Siberian unicorn, †Elasmotherium sibiricum.
An Asian unicorn, or saola, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis.
A howitzer.
Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
(slang)A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging or polyamory.
A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially a laundry list of three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).
A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.
Examples
60 sentencesTom believes that unicorns are real.
Том вірить, що єдинороги існують. — deniko
deTom glaubt, dass es Einhörner wirklich gibt. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Tom believes unicorns are real.
When I grow up, I want to be a unicorn.
Коли я виросту, я хочу бути єдинорогом. — deniko
The English love the unicorn as much as they love the lion.
Англійці так само люблять єдинорога, як і лева. — aandrusiak
Unicorns live in the enchanted forest.
Єдинороги живуть у зачарованому лісі. — deniko
ruВ зачарованном лесу живут единороги. — Wezel
deIn dem Zauberwald leben Einhörner. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English unicorne, unikorn, from Anglo-Norman unicorne, Old French unicorne, anFrom Middle English unicorne, unikorn, from Anglo-Norman unicorne, Old French unicorne, and their source, Latin ūnicornis, (from ūnus (“one”) + cornū (“horn”)), a calque of Ancient Greek μονόκερως (monókerōs, “having one horn”, (from μόνος (mónos, “one”) + κέρας (kéras, “horn”))). Displaced native Old English ānhorn, itself a calque of the Latin term. First attested in the early 13th c.
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