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English

Etymology

Blend of unicorn +? Pegasus

Noun

unisus (plural unisi)

1. (informal) A winged unicorn.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:unisus.

Synonyms

• (winged unicorn): pegasus, pegacorn (informal), unipeg (informal), alicorn (nonstandard)

See also

• alicorn (horn of a unicorn)

English

Etymology

From Middle English unicorne, unikorn, from Anglo-Norman unicorne, Old French unicorne, and their source, Latin ?nicornis, from ?nus (“one”) + corn? (“horn”). Other senses from either rarity (e.g., possessing multiple skills) or by physical resemblance to having a horn (e.g., howitzer). The finance sense was coined by American investor Aileen Lee and first used in a 2013 article.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ju?n?k??n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?jun?k??n/

Noun

unicorn (plural unicorns)

1. A mythical beast resembling a horse or deer with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.

   Hyponyms: pegacorn, unipeg, unisus

   Meronym: alicorn

   Holonym: blessing

2. (historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew ??????): a reem or wild ox.
3. Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.
4. A caterpillar, Schizura unicornis, with a large thorn-like spine on the back near its head.
5. The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
6. (military) A howitzer.
7. Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
   1. (sexual slang) A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging and/or polyamory.
   2. (business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).

      Synonym: purple squirrel
   4. (finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.

      Coordinate term: decacorn

      • 2017, Pongsak Hoontrakul, Economic Transformation and Business Opportunities in Asia, Springer (?ISBN), page 273:

        In May 2016, out of 163 global unicorns, China had 31, with a total valuation of $154 billion or about 26 percent of global unicorn valuation.

8. (attributive) Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.

9. (historical) A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

unicorn (third-person singular simple present unicorns, present participle unicorning, simple past and past participle unicorned)

1. (sexual slang) To participate in a sexual threesome as a bisexual addition to an established heterosexual couple.
2. (finance) To exceed a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars, while solely backed by venture capitalists.

See also

Further reading

• unicorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:unicorns on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• unicorns on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
• unicorn at OneLook Dictionary Search

References

Catalan

Noun

unicorn m (plural unicorns)

1. unicorn

Synonyms

• alicorn

Middle English

Noun

unicorn

1. Alternative form of unicorne

Romanian

Etymology

From French unicorne.

Adjective

unicorn m or n (feminine singular unicorn?, masculine plural unicorni, feminine and neuter plural unicorne)

1. one-horned

Declension