dragon
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- enPR: drăg'ən, IPA(key): /ˈdɹæɡən/, /ˈdɹæɡɪn/
Audio (US): (file) Audio (AU): (file) - (Canada, General American) IPA(key): (see /æ/ raising) [ˈdɹeɪɡən]
Audio (CA): (file) - Rhymes: -æɡən
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō, dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Displaced native Old English draca a doublet of dragon, so too are Draco and dragoon.
Noun edit
dragon (plural dragons)
- A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
- In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
- c. 1900, Edith Nesbit, The Last of the Dragons:
- 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.
- In Eastern Asian mythologies, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
- 1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:
- These tapestries were magnificently figured with golden dragons; and as the serpentine bodies gleamed and shimmered in the increasing radiance, each dragon, I thought, intertwined its glittering coils more closely with those of another.
- In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
- An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
- (obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
- Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
- A Komodo dragon.
- (astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior.
- (derogatory) A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.
- She’s a bit of a dragon.
- (UK, slang, rare, derogatory) An unattractive woman.
- (with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
- Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.
- (figurative) Something very formidable or dangerous.
- A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong.
- A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
- (military, weaponry, historical) A type of musket with a short, large-calibre barrel with a flared muzzle, often hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt.
- Synonym: dragoon
- 1886, Charles Gould, Mythical Monsters:
- our dragoons were so denominated because they were armed with dragons, that is, with short muskets, which spouted fire like dragons, and had the head of a dragon wrought upon their muzzle
- (computing, rare) A background process similar to a daemon.
- 1995, Harley Hahn, The UNIX Companion, page 420:
- Daemons and Dragons. The print spooler is an example of a DAEMON, a program that executes in the background and provides a service […] Strictly speaking, a dragon is a daemon that is not invoked explicitly but is always there, waiting in the background […]
- 2018, J. K. Petersen, Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary:
- Many of the postmaster functions are actually handled by computer software such as dragons and mailer daemons.
- A variety of carrier pigeon.
Synonyms edit
- (legendary creature): drake, wyrm, wyvern, lindworm, derg (furry fandom), dwaggy (online slang, childish)
- (unpleasant woman): dragon lady, see also Thesaurus:shrew
Hypernyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- (legendary creature): dragoness, dragonness, dragonette, dragonet, dragonlet, dragonling
Derived terms edit
- Australian water dragon
- bearded dragon
- chase the dragon
- Chinese dragon
- dragon arum
- dragonback
- dragon beam
- dragon boat
- Dragon Boat Festival
- dragon boating
- dragonbone
- Dragon Book
- dragonbreath
- dragon curve
- dragon dance
- dragondom
- dragonesque
- dragoness
- dragonet
- dragonette
- dragonfish
- dragon flag
- dragonfly
- dragon fruit
- dragon gate
- dragonhead
- dragonhide
- dragonhood
- dragonish
- dragonize
- dragonkin
- dragonkind
- dragonking
- dragon lady
- dragonless
- dragonlet
- Dragon Li
- dragonlike
- dragonling
- dragon lizard
- dragonlord
- dragonlore
- dragonly
- Dragon Man
- dragon man
- dragonmaster
- dragonologist
- dragonology
- dragonproof
- dragon roll
- dragonroot
- dragon's beard candy
- dragon's blood
- dragonsbreath
- dragon's head
- dragonskin
- dragonslayer
- dragonsome
- dragonspeak
- dragon's tail
- dragon's teeth
- dragonstone
- Dragon's Triangle
- dragon's wort
- dragontail
- dragon tie
- dragon tree
- dragon whisperer
- dragonwise
- dragon worm
- dragonwort
- dragon year
- drain the dragon
- earless dragon
- eastern bearded dragon
- eastern water dragon
- feed the dragon
- firedragon
- flying dragon
- frilled dragon
- fudge dragon
- Gippsland water dragon
- grand dragon
- green dragon
- gum dragon
- ice dragon boat
- ice dragon boating
- jacky dragon
- Komodo dragon
- Land of the Dragon
- Land of the Red Dragon
- leafy sea dragon
- luck dragon
- mud dragon
- northern water dragon
- paper dragon
- Pilbara dragon
- puff the magic dragon
- reluctant dragon
- river-dragon
- scrambling dragon
- sea dragon
- shadowdragon
- sleeping dragon
- snapdragon
- Stanford dragon
- tickle the dragon's tail
- tree dragon
- twindragon
- water dragon
- weedy sea dragon
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
Etymology 2 edit
Derived from drag queen.
Noun edit
dragon (plural dragons)
- (slang) A man who does drag or crossdresses, or sometimes by extension a male-to-female transgender person.
- May 2017 Michael Connelly shares excerpt from The Late Show
- Ballard felt her phone vibrate in her hand and turned away from the nurse. She saw a return text from Mendez. She read his answer out loud to Jenkins. “‘Ramona Ramone, dragon. Real name Ramón Gutierrez. Had him in here a couple weeks back. Priors longer than his pre-op dick.’ Nice way of putting it.” “Considering his own dimensions,” Jenkins said. Drag queens, cross-dressers, and transgenders were all generally referred to as dragons in vice. No distinctions were made. It wasn’t nice but it was accepted.
- October 2017 Drag Star VIZIN is back with new single Blasting News
- My favorite part was probably the ‘de-dragging.’ Taking the Dragon off (that’s what I call her) is always my favorite. In all honesty, the entire experience was amazing and I wouldn’t change it for the world. Being felt up by Michael Silas wasn’t bad either...
- December 2017 Miss Lawrence as Miss Bruce, "Climax" Star episode 21
- Yes. Butt shots. Everybody can't afford lipo and fat transfers. Especially dragons. So if they want to pay me top dollar to pump their ass up that's what I'm gonna do, and you've benefited from it.
- May 2017 Michael Connelly shares excerpt from The Late Show
Further reading edit
- dragon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- dragon (firearm) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- dragon (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “dragon”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -oːˀn
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
dragon c (singular definite dragonen, plural indefinite dragoner)
- a dragoon (soldier of the mounted infantry)
Etymology 2 edit
From Medieval Latin dragon, from Arabic طَرْخُون (ṭarḵūn), from Ancient Greek δρακόντιον (drakóntion).
Noun edit
dragon c (singular definite dragonen, plural indefinite dragoner)
References edit
- “dragon” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Middle French dragon, from Arabic طَرْخُون (ṭarḵūn), from Ancient Greek δρακόντιον (drakóntion).
Noun edit
dragon m (uncountable)
- The edible Mediterranean herb Artemisia dracunculus (tarragon), used as a salad spice
- The plant Erysimum cheiranthoides
Synonyms edit
- (Erysium cheiranthoides): steenraket
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
dragon m (plural dragons, diminutive dragonnetje n)
- A (French) dragoon
Hypernyms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French dragon, perhaps borrowed from Old Occitan dragon, from Latin dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Doublet of drac.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dragon m (plural dragons, feminine dragonne)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Albanian: dragun
- → Armenian: դրագուն (dragun)
- → Azerbaijani: draqun
- → Bashkir: драгун (dragun)
- → Belarusian: драгун (drahun)
- → Breton: dragun
- → Bulgarian: драгун (dragun)
- → Catalan: dragon
- → Cebuano: dragun
- → Crimean Tatar: dragun
- → Czech: dragoun
- → Danish: dragon
- → English: dragoon
- → Esperanto: dragono
- → Estonian: tragun
- → Gagauz: dragun
- → Georgian: დრაგუნი (draguni)
- → German: Dragoner
- → Dutch: dragonder
- → Greek: δραγόνος (dragónos)
- → Hebrew: דרגון (dragún)
- → Hungarian: dragonyos
- → Icelandic: dragoní
- → Ido: dragono
- → Irish: dragún
- → Japanese: ドラグーン (doragūn)
- → Kazakh: драгун (dragun)
- → Korean: 드래군 (deuraegun)
- → Kyrgyz: драгун (dragun)
- → Latvian: dragūns
- → Lithuanian: dragūnas
- → Macedonian: драгун (dragun)
- → Mongolian: драгун (dragun)
- → Norwegian: dragon
- → Occitan: dragon
- → Polish: dragon
- → Romanian: dragon
- → Russian: драгун (dragun)
- → Carpathian Rusyn: драґун (dragun)
- → Serbo-Croatian: dragun / драгун
- → Slovak: dragún
- → Slovene: dragonec
- → Spanish: dragón
- → Swedish: dragon
- → Finnish: rakuuna
- → Tagalog: dragun
- → Tajik: драгун (dragun)
- → Tatar: драгун (drağun)
- → Turkish: dragon
- → Turkmen: dragun
- → Ukrainian: драгун (drahun)
- → Uzbek: dragun
- → Waray-Waray: dragun
- → Welsh: dragŵn
- → Zazaki: dragun
Further reading edit
- “dragon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Noun edit
dragon
- Alternative form of dragoun
- 1382, Wyclif's Bible, Daniel 14:26:
- Therfor Daniel took pitch, and talow, and heeris, and sethide togidere; and he made gobetis, and yaf in to the mouth of the dragun; and the dragun was al to-brokun.
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- 1380-1399 — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale
- For God seith thus by Moyses: they shul been wasted with hunger, and the briddes of helle shul devouren hem with bitter deeth, and the galle of the dragon shal been hire drynke, and the venym of the dragon hire morsels.
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Norman edit
Alternative forms edit
- dragoun (continental Normandy)
Etymology edit
From Old French dragon, from Latin dracō, dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn).
Pronunciation edit
Audio (Jersey): (file)
Noun edit
dragon m (plural dragons)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Noun edit
dragon m (definite singular dragonen, indefinite plural dragoner, definite plural dragonene)
- a dragoon (soldier of the mounted infantry)
References edit
- “dragon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Noun edit
dragon m (definite singular dragonen, indefinite plural dragonar, definite plural dragonane)
- a dragoon (soldier of the mounted infantry)
References edit
- “dragon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Dutch edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb edit
dragon
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Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “dragon”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Old French edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Semi-learned term from Latin dracō, dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn).
Noun edit
dragon oblique singular, m (oblique plural dragons, nominative singular dragons, nominative plural dragon)
- dragon (mythical animal)
Descendants edit
Old Galician-Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
From Latin dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn). Compare Old Spanish dragon.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dragon m
- dragon
- 13th c., Afonso X, “Cantiga CLXXXIX”, in Cantigas de Santa Maria:
- Esta é como un ome que ya a Santa Maria de Salas achou un dragon na carreira e / mató-o, e el ficou gafo de poçon, e pois sãou-[o] Santa Maria. / Ben pode Santa Maria guarir de toda poçon, / pois madr' é do que trillou o basilisqu' e o dragon.
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- 13th c., Afonso X, “Cantiga CCXXXVIII”, in Cantigas de Santa Maria:
- Na vila. [E] os gollos ficaron todos enton / ant' aquel que da cada nos foi tirar do dragon; / e o jograr mal-andante cospiu e disse que non / vira gente tan baveca, e muy mal os dostou. / O que viltar quer a Virgen de que Deus carne fillou...
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- 13th c., Afonso X, “Cantiga CCLXX”, in Cantigas de Santa Maria:
- Per Adan e per Eva fomos todos caer / en poder do diabo; mais quise-sse doer / de nos quen nos fezera, e vo-sse fazer / nov' Adan que britass' a cabega do dragon. / Todos con alegria cantand' e en bon son...
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Descendants edit
Old Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin dracōnem, accusative of dracō, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dragon m (plural dragones)
- dragon
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 103r:
- Et eſto faz deſcẽdiẽdo ſobrella la uertud de fig̃a de om̃e cubierto duna ſauana. ⁊ cauallero ſobre un dragõ ⁊ teniẽdo en ſu mano dieſtra una lãça.
- And it does this when over it descends the virtue of the figure of a man covered with a sheet, and a knight riding a dragon with a spear in his right hand.
- Idem, f. 118v.
- Et es de la manera de las piedras ſeelladas. que los antigos gardauan. / Et presta pora echar los dragones. ⁊ las ſirpientes. de los lugares.
- And it is akin to the sealed stones that the ancients kept. And it is good for expelling dragons and snakes from any place.
Descendants edit
Old Welsh edit
Noun edit
dragon m
Quotations edit
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Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French dragon, from Latin dracō, dracōnem. Doublet of the inherited drac (“devil”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dragon m (plural dragoni)
- a dragon (mythical creature)
- Synonym: balaur
- a flying lizard species (of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona)
- (astronomy, often capitalized, with definite articulation) Draco (constellation)
- (military) a dragoon (horse soldier)
Declension edit
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) dragon | dragonul | (niște) dragoni | dragonii |
genitive/dative | (unui) dragon | dragonului | (unor) dragoni | dragonilor |
vocative | dragonule | dragonilor |
Related terms edit
References edit
- dragon in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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Pronunciation edit
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dragon c
- a dragoon (soldier of the mounted infantry)
- the perennial herb tarragon
- leaves of that plant, used as seasoning
Declension edit
Declension of dragon | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | dragon | dragonen | dragoner | dragonerna |
Genitive | dragons | dragonens | dragoners | dragonernas |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Finnish: rakuuna
See also edit
References edit
- dragon in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- dragon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- dragon in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Anagrams edit
Tagalog edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Spanish dragón, from Latin dracōnem, from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, dragon”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /dɾaˈɡon/ [dɾɐˈɣon]
- Rhymes: -on
- Syllabification: dra‧gon
Noun edit
dragón (Baybayin spelling ᜇ᜔ᜇᜄᜓᜈ᜔)
Related terms edit
Further reading edit
- “dragon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
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