Unicorn

Quick meaning: Unicorn is a noun meaning (biblical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.

Meaning

(biblical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.

More Meanings

1. Certain animals:
2. (military) A howitzer.
3. Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
4. (attributive) Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.
5. (mythology) A mythical horse, widely believed to exist until the 17th century, with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
6. (historical) A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.
7. (slang) To participate in a sexual threesome as a bisexual addition to an established heterosexual couple.

Example Sentences

unicorn smoothies

Katja*, 27, has unicorned on two separate occasions.

[Seb.] A liuing Drolerie: now I will beleeue / That there are Vnicornes:[…]

The unicorn who may be touched and tamed only by a chaste virgin is a lunar symbol of the ancient religion of Europe.

Word Forms

• unicorns
• unicorning
• unicorned

Synonyms for unicorn

Depending on context, synonyms include monoceros, rarity.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include licorne, alicorn, monoceros, bicorn, unisus, cavicorn.

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