dragon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
  2. In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizard-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
  3. 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.
  4. An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
  5. A very large snake; a python.
  6. Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
  7. A Komodo dragon.
  8. A sea dragon.
  9. The constellation Draco.
  10. A fierce and unpleasant woman.
  11. An unattractive woman.
  12. The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
noun
  1. Synonym of drag queen.
name
  1. The fifth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
  2. Synonym of Devil.

Pronunciation

/ˈdɹæɡən/ [ˈdɹ̝ʷæɡən] ~ [ˈdɹ̝ʷæɡn̩] [d̠ɹ̠˔ʷæɡən] ~ [d̠ɹ̠˔ʷæɡn̩] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-dragon.wav en-us-dragon.ogg en-au-dragon.ogg /ˈdɹeɪ̯ɡən/ [ˈdɹ̝eɪ̯ɡən] ~ [ˈdɹeɪ̯ɡn̩] [d̠ɹ̠˔ʷeɪ̯ɡən] ~ [d̠ɹ̠˔ʷeɪ̯ɡn̩] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Acadienenexil-dragon.wav

Word forms

dragon dragons dwagon

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. Mostly displaced Old English draca (whence modern drake)—from the same Latin source, as are Draco, Dracon, dracone, and dragoon.

Translations

Abkhaz: аблаҩа Abkhaz: агәылшьаԥ Afrikaans: draak Albanian: kuçedër Albanian: dragoi Southern Altai: улуу Arabic: تِنِّين Aragonese: dragón Aramaic: תנינא Armenian: դրակոն Armenian: վիշապ Asturian: cuélebre Avar: аздагьо Avestan: 𐬀𐬲𐬌 Avestan: 𐬀𐬲𐬌⸱𐬛𐬀𐬵𐬁𐬐𐬀 Azerbaijani: əjdəha Bashkir: аждаһа Bashkir: дракон Basque: herensuge Belarusian: цмок Belarusian: драко́н Belarusian: змей Belarusian: смок Bengali: আজদাহা Central Bikol: dragon Bulgarian: драко́н Bulgarian: змей Burmese: နဂါး Catalan: drac Catalan: víbria Chechen: саьрмик Cherokee: ᎤᎦᏖᎾ Chinese Cantonese: 龍 /龙 Chinese: лун Chinese Mandarin: 龍 /龙 Chuvash: аҫтаха Coptic: ⲇⲣⲁⲕⲱⲛ Crimean Tatar: ajderha Czech: drak Danish: drage Danish: lindorm Dargwa: аждагьа Dutch: draak Dutch: lintworm Dzongkha: འབྲུག Elfdalian: dratji Esperanto: drako Estonian: lohe Estonian: draakon Estonian: lohemadu Estonian: lendmadu Faroese: dreki Faroese: lindormur Finnish: lohikäärme French: dragon West-Frisian: draak
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