What is the difference between deer and fawn?
deer | fawn |
A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae'', or one of several similar animals from related families of the order ''Artiodactyla .
(lb) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose'' or ''elk .
The meat of such an animal; venison.
A beast, especially a quadruped and especially a mammal, as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
* (rfdate) William Shakespeare, King Lear , Act III. IV:
A young deer.
A pale brown colour tinted with yellow, like that of a fawn.
(obsolete) The young of an animal; a whelp.
* Holland
Of the fawn colour.
To exhibit affection or attempt to please.
To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on'' or ''upon ).
* Shakespeare
* Milton
* Macaulay
*
, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (of a dog) To wag its tail, to show devotion.
Fawn is a hyponym of deer.
As nouns the difference between deer and fawn
is that deer is a ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla while fawn is a young deer.As an adjective fawn is
of the fawn colour.As a verb fawn is
to give birth to a fawn.deer
English
Noun
(en-noun) (wikipedia deer)- I wrecked my car after a deer ran across the road.
- Oh, I've never had deer before.
- But mice and rats and such small deer , have been Tom's food for seven long year.
Hyponyms
* buck, stag (male deer) * doe (female deer) * fawn (young deer) * hart (adult deer)Derived terms
* deerfly * deerlike * deer ked * deer's tongue * (Bactrian deer) * (Bawean deer) * (black-tailed deer) * (Calamian deer) * (Corsican red deer) * (vern, Eld's deer) * (European red deer) * fallow deer * (Formosan deer) * (Indian hog deer) * (Indochinese hog deer) * (Maral deer) * marsh deer * (Mindanao mountain deer) * (Mindoro deer) * mouse deer * mule deer * musk deer * pampas deer * * (vern, Prince Alfred's deer) * red deer * reindeer * roe deer * rusa deer * Schomburgk's deer * (sika deer) * (vern, Thorold's deer) * (Tsushima Island deer) * (Vietnamese deer) * (water deer) * white-tailed deer * (Yarkand deer)fawn
English
(wikipedia fawn)Etymology 1
From (etyl) faon.Noun
(en noun)- [The tigress] after her fawns .
Adjective
(-)Derived terms
* fawn lilyEtymology 2
From (etyl) fawnen, from (etyl) fahnian, fagnian, . See also fain.Verb
(en verb)- You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds.
- Thou with trembling fear, / Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest.
- courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him
citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}