Centaur

Meaning

Noun

• One of a race of monsters having a head, torso, and arms of a man, and the body and legs of a horse. Often depicted as rowdy drunkards, with Chiron being a notable exception.
• A skillful horseman or horsewoman.
• A U.S. upper stage, with a restartable liquid-propellant engine, used with an Atlas or Titan booster to launch satellites and probes.
• An icy planetoid that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune

Origin

• {ME}; Latin Centaurus; Greek (Kentauros); (Eng. usg. ca. 14c)