| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  fôn |
| NOUN: | Roman Mythology Any of a group of rural deities represented as having the body of a man and the horns, ears, tail, and sometimes legs of a goat. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin Faunus, Faunus.
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