Meaning of Unicorn | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mythical horse, widely believed to exist until the 17th century, with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
2. In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): 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. A howitzer.
7. Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
8. A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging or polyamory.
   slang
9. A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially a laundry list of three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).
10. 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.
11. A fan with serious aspirations to become romantically involved with a VTuber (i.e., the streamer behind the avatar).
12. Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.
    attributive
13. A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.
    historical
14. Certain animals:
15. A Siberian unicorn, †Elasmotherium sibiricum.
16. An Asian unicorn, or saola, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis.

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Examples

“[Seb.] A liuing Drolerie: now I will beleeue / That there are Vnicornes:[…]”

“The unicorn who may be touched and tamed only by a chaste virgin is a lunar symbol of the ancient religion of Europe.”

“God brought him forth out of Egypt, he hath as it were the ſtrength of an Vnicorne: he ſhall eate vp the nations his enemies, and ſhall breake their bones, and pierce them thorow with his arrowes.”

“The Sixth Inniskilling Dragoons and the First Battalion Royal Scots will be in attendance, and there will be unicorns, carricks, pursuivants, heralds, mace-bearers, ushers, and pages, together with the Purse-bearer, and the Lyon King-of-Arms, and the national anthem, and the royal salute”

“On Capitol Hill, Mr. Manchin is something of a unicorn — the only national Democrat from his ruby-red state — and acts and votes accordingly.”

“But I also think, “They’re looking for a unicorn — a magical designer who can solve all their problems.” It’s too bad unicorns don’t exist. … I have never met a designer who is an expert in all those skill areas. … Even if you find a unicorn designer with all those skills, actually doing all those things at your company is a huge amount of work.”

“He believes that good data scientists, “otherwise known as unicorn data scientists,” have three types of expertise.”

“As the price of Web hosting plummeted and PCs and cell phones proliferated, college and grad-school dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg or Larry Page and Sergey Brin could suddenly conjure unicorns on their laptops.”

“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.”

“unicorn smoothies”

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