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# fawn

«fawn» in Mova's school dictionary: **a young deer, usually less than a year old, often with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fawn, fawns); adjective (fawn — a colour); verb (fawn, fawns, fawned, fawning)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fawn is a young deer, usually less than a year old, often with white spots. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#m1)

2) Fawn is a light yellowish-brown colour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#m2)

3) To fawn over someone means to praise and please them too much, to get them to like you. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#m3)

4) A fawn can also be a loving name for a dear child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In nature lessons, fawns are baby deer hidden by their mothers in long grass; their spots are camouflage. In safety lessons, pupils learn not to touch a fawn found alone, because the mother is usually nearby. Phrases: a newborn fawn, fawn colour, fawn over.

### examples

- A fawn was hiding in the long grass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#x1)
- The fawn has white spots on its back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#x2)
- Bambi is a famous fawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#x3)
- If you find a fawn alone, leave it; its mother will come back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#x4)
- She wore a fawn coat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#x5)
- The dog is fawn with a black nose. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#x6)
- The courtiers fawned over the king. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#x7)
- Behind them played the young fawns together. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/#x8)

### note

Countable for the animal: a fawn, fawns. Homophone: faun (a half-man, half-goat creature in myths, like Mr Tumnus in Narnia). Do not touch or pick up wild baby animals.

### In the corpora

- [Imagine walking through long grass and finding a spotted fawn lying perfectly still.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/143-bambi-real-deer-rabbits-skunks-and-owls/3/)
- [A fawn or young hare alone in a field is not abandoned; its mother leaves it hidden and comes back to feed it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/12/)
- [Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle, which feed among the lilies.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.51/)
- [Thy two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a gazelle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/SNG.107/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fawn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fawn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.