unicorn The unicorn is a legendary creature that has been described since antiquity as a beast with a single large, pointed, spiraling horn projecting from its forehead. In European literature and art, the unicorn has for the last thousand years o ...

is a legendary horse-like beast with a horn on its forehead. Unicorn may also refer to:

Fictional entities

Unicorn (Marvel Comics) Unicorn is the codename of multiple different supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Publication history The first Unicorn (Milos Masaryk) debuted in ''Tales of Suspense'' #56 (Aug. 1964) and was created by ...

, 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

Film and television

* ''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

Literature

* ''The Unicorn'' (novel), 1963, by Iris Murdoch * ''The Unicorn'' or ''Das Einhorn'', a 1966 novel by

Martin Walser Martin Walser (; born 24 March 1927) is a German writer. Life Walser was born in Wasserburg am Bodensee, on Lake Constance. His parents were coal merchants, and they also kept an inn next to the train station in Wasserburg. He described the ...

Military

Opération Licorne Opération Licorne was a French Armed Forces peacekeeping operation in support of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire. The French forces had been stationed in the country since shortly after the outbreak of the Ivorian Civil War. T ...

( en, link=no, Operation Unicorn), a French peacekeeping mission in Côte d'Ivoire * Opération Licorne ( en, link=no, Operation Unicorn), a French nuclear test in French Polynesia; see Fangataufa#History *

Operation Unicorn (Scotland) Operation London Bridge was the funeral plan for Queen Elizabeth II. The plan included the announcement of her death, the period of official mourning, and the details of her state funeral. The plan was created as early as the 1960s and revise ...

, a supporting plan for Operation London Bridge to be enacted in the event of a monarch dying in Scotland *

Unicorn APC The Unicorn is a MRAP used by the Sri Lankan military based on the Buffel, which is made by the Sri Lanka Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. Production history Initial research into producing a "Blast Protected Vehicle" armoured personnel carri ...

, 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

Groups

Unicorn (Japanese band) is a Japanese rock band, formed in 1986, consisting of Koichi Kawanishi (drums), Tamio Okuda (vocals, rhythm guitar), Isamu Teshima (lead guitar), Kazushi Horiuchi (bass guitar), and Yoshiharu Abe (keyboard, vocals). They reunited in 2009. U ...

, a rock band * Unicorn (South Korean band), a girl group *

The Unicorns ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the ...

, a band from Montreal, Canada *

Unicorn (English band) Unicorn were an English country rock band, notable for their association with David Gilmour of Pink Floyd from 1973. 1963–1972 Although Unicorn didn't release their first album until 1971, most of the group had been playing together since 19 ...

, English country rock band

Albums

* ''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 was a Taiwanese- Japanese soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army who fought for Japan in World War II and did not surrender until 1974. He was the last known Japanese holdout to surrender after the end of hostilities in 1945. Military service N ...

Songs

* "The Unicorn" (song), by Shel Silverstein, made popular by the Irish Rovers * "Unicorn", a song by Apoptygma Berzerk from ''

Harmonizer Pitch shifting is a sound recording technique in which the original pitch of a sound is raised or lowered. Effects units that raise or lower pitch by a pre-designated musical interval ( transposition) are called pitch shifters. Pitch and tim ...

'' *"Unicorn", a song by Basement Jaxx from ''Junto'' * "Christmas Unicorn", a song by Sufjan Stevens from the 2012 album ''

Silver & Gold Silver and Gold may refer to: Chemistry Electrum, also called white gold, is gold that has silver added to it. Music * ''Silver & Gold'' (Vanessa Williams album), also featuring the song by Burl Ives * ''Silver & Gold'' (Neil Young album), ...

Sports

Unicorns (cricket team) Unicorns were a cricket team in England that was formed in 2010 specifically to play in the Clydesdale Bank 40 limited overs competition. They played in that competition until 2013 and from 2014 to 2018 the Unicorns team competed in the Second XI ...

, English, active from 2010 to 2018 *

Hyundai Unicorns The Hyundai Unicorns () were a South Korean professional baseball team based in Suwon. They were a member of the KBO League. The Unicorns won the KBO championship four times (1998, 2000, 2003 and 2004). The Unicorns were dissolved after the 20 ...

, a defunct South Korean baseball franchise *

Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns The Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns are an American football team from Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. The club's greatest successes were winning the southern division title in the German Football League in 2009 and in every season played since 2011 (as of ...

, a team playing American football in the German Football League *

Kristaps Porziņģis Kristaps Porziņģis (; born 2 August 1995) is a Latvian professional basketball player for the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is one of the tallest active players in the NBA, standing at tall, and plays bo ...

or the Unicorn (born 1995), Latvian basketball player * The Unicorns, the mascot and athletic teams from the

North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM) is a two-year, public residential high school located in Durham, North Carolina, that focuses on the intensive study of science, mathematics and technology. It accepts rising juniors ...

Other uses

* The Unicorn (black hole) * Unicorn (coin) and half-unicorn, Scottish gold coins *

Unicorn (finance) In business, a unicorn is a privately held startup company valued at over US$1 billion. The term was first published in 2013, coined by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, choosing the mythical animal to represent the statistical rarity of such succe ...

, a privately held startup company above a certain valuation * ''Unicorn'' (spider), a genus of family Oonopidae *

Unicorn (web server) Unicorn is a Rack HTTP server to serve Ruby web applications on UNIX environment. It is optimised to be used with nginx. It is based on now deprecated Mongrel 1.1.5 from 2008. Architecture Unicorn uses a master/worker architecture, where a maste ...

* Unicorn fish (disambiguation) *

Honda Unicorn The Honda Unicorn is a motorcycle developed by Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (HMSI) and introduced in 2004. It was internally called the CBF150M. The engine was taken from the CRF150F post 2005 engine. The previous version of CRF150F was the ...

, a motorcycle sold in India * Unicorn, a

fairy chess piece A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some chess problems. Compared to conventional pieces, fair ...

in Raumschach * Giant unicorn, a common name for ''Elasmotherium'', an extinct European rhinoceros