Centaur Definition
A skillful horseman or horsewoman.
(rocketry) A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.
- the constellation Centaurus
Other Word Forms of Centaur
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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
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From Latin centaurus, from Ancient Greek κένταυρος (kentauros), from Κένταυρος (Kentauros, “a member of a savage race from Thessaly”).
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