UNICORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unicorn mean? 

• UNICORN (noun)
  The noun UNICORN has 1 sense:

1. an imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead

  Familiarity information: UNICORN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNICORN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An imaginary creature represented as a white horse with a long horn growing from its forehead

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("unicorn" is a kind of...):

imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

 Context examples 

I fear one unicorn still less than two giants.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In the forest roams a unicorn which does great harm, and you must catch it first.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I killed two giants, I brought away one unicorn, and caught a wild boar, and am I to fear those who are standing outside the room.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The unicorn soon came towards him, and rushed directly on the tailor, as if it would gore him with its horn without more ado.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The unicorn ran against the tree with all its strength, and stuck its horn so fast in the trunk that it had not the strength enough to draw it out again, and thus it was caught.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)