fawn definition | what is fawn-meaning | define fawn in a sentence

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to seek favor by flattery

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to show enthusiastic affection, usually by a pet or any animal

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How I would make him fawn, and beg, and seek

(source: William Shakespeare in 'Love's Labour's Lost')

 

This is my opponent's alliance-building strategy: brush-off your best friend, fawn over your critics. That is no way to gain the respect of the world.

(source: Voice of America)

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As he came home after a long vacation, his dog started fawning all over him.

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young deer aged under one year

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greyish yellow-brown color

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Just then a fawn came wandering by: it looked at Alice with its large gentle eyes, but didn't seem at all frightened.

(source: Lewis Carroll in 'Through the Looking Glass')

 

Norman Baade of St. Joseph, Missouri says he has been to Africa several times and was impressed by a photo of two young cheetahs chasing a springbok fawn.

(source: Voice of America)

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Her fawn sweater matched her outfit.

(source: Voice of America)

He was pure white, with a fawn-coloured saddle just behind his neck, and a fawn diamond at the root of his thin whippy tail.

(source: Rudyard Kipling in 'Actions and Reactions')