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A unicorn is a legendary horse-like beast with a horn on its forehead.
Unicorn may also refer to:
Fictional entities
edit- Unicorn (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
- Unicorn (Dungeons & Dragons), a fantasy role-playing game creature
- Unicorn (Tintin), a fictional sailing ship, the vessel in The Adventures of Tintin comics
- Unicorn, a character in the Canadian animated series Animal Mechanicals
Film and television
edit- The Unicorn (1955 film), a Swedish drama film
- The Unicorn (1978 film), a German film based on the novel by Martin Walser
- The Unicorn (2018 film), an American comedy film
- The Unicorn (TV series), a 2019 American sitcom on CBS
- Unicorns (2023 British film), a British drama film directed by Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd
- Unicorns (2023 Spanish film), a Spanish drama film directed by Àlex Lora
Literature
edit- The Unicorn (novel), 1963, by Iris Murdoch
- The Unicorn or Das Einhorn, a 1966 novel by Martin Walser
Military
edit- Opération Licorne (English: Operation Unicorn), a French peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire
- Opération Licorne (English: Operation Unicorn), a French nuclear test in French Polynesia; see Fangataufa#History
- Operation Unicorn (Scotland), a supporting plan for Operation London Bridge to be enacted in the event of a monarch dying in Scotland
- Unicorn APC, a land mine-protected wheeled armoured personnel carrier used by the Sri Lankan military
- HMS Unicorn, any of several British naval vessels
- HMS Unicorn (1634), a 56-gun ship
- HMS Unicorn (1748), a 28-gun sixth rate
- HMS Unicorn (1776), a French frigate captured by HMS Resource in 1781
- HMS Unicorn (1794), a 32-gun fifth rate
- HMS Unicorn (1824), a Leda-class frigate
- HMS Unicorn (I72), an aircraft maintenance carrier launched in 1941
- HMS Unicorn (S43), an Upholder-class submarine launched in 1992
- USS Unicorn, any of several United States submarines
- USS Unicorn (SS-429), a submarine cancelled in 1944, before construction began
- USS Unicorn (SS-436), a submarine laid down in 1945 and launched but never commissioned
Music
editGroups
edit- Unicorn (Japanese band), a rock band
- Unicorn (South Korean band), a girl group
- The Unicorns, a band from Montreal, Canada
- Unicorn (English band), English country rock band
Albums
edit- Unicorn (Chew Lips album) (2010)
- Unicorn (Tyrannosaurus Rex album) (1969)
- Unicorn (Ugress album) (2008)
- The Unicorn (album), a 1967 folk album by the Irish Rovers
- Unicorn, an album by Teruo Nakamura
Songs
edit- "The Unicorn" (song), by Shel Silverstein, made popular by the Irish Rovers
- "Unicorn" (song), by Noa Kirel, the Israeli song for the Eurovision Song Contest 2023
- "Unicorn", a song by Apoptygma Berzerk from Harmonizer
- "Unicorn", a song by Basement Jaxx from Junto
- "Christmas Unicorn", a song by Sufjan Stevens from the 2012 album Silver & Gold
Sports
edit- Unicorns (cricket team), English, active from 2010 to 2018
- San Francisco Unicorns, an American cricket team
- Hyundai Unicorns, a defunct South Korean baseball franchise
- Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns, a team playing American football in the German Football League
- Kristaps Porziņģis or the Unicorn (born 1995), Latvian basketball player
- The Unicorns, the mascot and athletic teams from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Other uses
edit- The Unicorn (black hole)
- Unicorn (coin) and half-unicorn, Scottish gold coins
- Unicorn (finance), a privately held startup company above a certain valuation
- Unicorn (spider), a genus of family Oonopidae
- Unicorn (web server)
- Unicorn fish (disambiguation)
- Unicorn Mountain, in British Columbia
- Unicorn Peak, in Washington state
- Honda Unicorn, a motorcycle sold in India
- Unicorn, a fairy chess piece in Raumschach
- Giant unicorn, a common name for Elasmotherium, an extinct European rhinoceros
- Unicorn, an old common name for a rhinoceros, rhinoceros unicornis
See also
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- The Gender Unicorn, an educational method used to describe the spectrums of gender and sexuality
- Unicorn hunting, used to describe the search for a third partner to join a sexual encounter
- Unicorn Trend, the modern phenomenon of unicorns used as a pop-culture icon
- Eenhoorn (disambiguation), Dutch for unicorn
- Einhorn (surname), German for unicorn
- Gunicorn or Green Unicorn, a port on the Unicorn web server
- Invisible Pink Unicorn, a goddess popularized on a Usenet group about atheism, and intended to satirize theistic belief
- Licorne (disambiguation) (French: , lit. 'unicorn')
- Monoceros, the constellation of the Unicorn
- Narwhal or Unicorn whale, an Arctic species of whale with a tusk on its head
- Unicorn-Kanchana, a classical record label
- Unicron, a Transformers character
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