dragon
//ˈdɹæɡən//
Forms
- Plural
- dragons
Definitions
1.A mythical reptilian or serpentine creature.
- They pitched the dragon / over the cliff-top, let tide's flow / and backwash take the treasure-minder.
- Before daylight, when the dragon flew home to sleep, he had burned up the hall and even the throne of the Geatish king.
- But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon, and rescue a princess, the dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from.
2.The constellation Draco.
- My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior.
3.A fierce and unpleasant woman.
- She’s a bit of a dragon.
4.An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3850
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Word family
Etymology
From Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō(n), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see clearly”).
Displaced Old English wyrm, whence modern worm.