Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and the poem which it is based on share a dreamy, ethereal, but nonetheless passionate feel.
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Faun
//fɔn//
Synonyms for "faun" (22 found)
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Related words (11)
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10 entriesTranslations
25 translations across 23 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- фавн noun (a mythical creature)
Catalan
1 entries- faune noun (a mythical creature)
Czech
1 entries- faun noun (a mythical creature)
Dutch
1 entries- faun noun (a mythical creature)
Esperanto
1 entries- faŭno noun (a mythical creature)
Finnish
1 entries- fauni noun (a mythical creature)
French
1 entries- faune noun (a mythical creature)
German
2 entries- Faun noun (a mythical creature)
- Faunus noun (a mythical creature)
Greek
1 entries- φαύνος noun (a mythical creature)
Icelandic
1 entries- fán noun (a mythical creature)
Ido
1 entries- fauno noun (a mythical creature)
Irish
1 entries- fánas noun (a mythical creature)
Italian
2 entries- fauno noun (a mythical creature)
- semicapro noun (a mythical creature)
Middle English
1 entries- fawn noun (a mythical creature)
Norwegian
1 entries- faun noun (a mythical creature)
Old English
1 entries- wuduwāsa noun (a mythical creature)
Polish
1 entries- faun noun (a mythical creature)
Portuguese
1 entries- fauno noun (a mythical creature)
Romanian
1 entries- faun noun (a mythical creature)
Russian
1 entries- фавн noun (a mythical creature)
Spanish
1 entries- fauno noun (a mythical creature)
Swedish
1 entries- faunus noun (a mythical creature)
Tagalog
1 entries- pawno noun (a mythical creature)
Sample sentences
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He remained abroad seven years, spending the last four on the Continent, some transcriptions of his experience being found in the celebrated Marble Faun and in several volumes of Note-Books.
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