dragon
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- 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 lizard-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
- 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.
- An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
- A very large snake; a python.
- Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
- A Komodo dragon.
- A sea dragon.
- The constellation Draco.
- A fierce and unpleasant woman.
- An unattractive woman.
- The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
noun
- Synonym of drag queen.
name
- The fifth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
- Synonym of Devil.
Pronunciation
/ˈdɹæɡən/
[ˈdɹ̝ʷæɡən] ~ [ˈdɹ̝ʷæɡn̩]
[d̠ɹ̠˔ʷæɡən] ~ [d̠ɹ̠˔ʷæɡn̩]
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/ˈdɹeɪ̯ɡən/
[ˈdɹ̝eɪ̯ɡən] ~ [ˈdɹeɪ̯ɡn̩]
[d̠ɹ̠˔ʷeɪ̯ɡən] ~ [d̠ɹ̠˔ʷeɪ̯ɡn̩]
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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.
Synonyms
drake
lindworm
worm
wyrm
wyvern
derg
drag
draggy
dwaggy
dragon lady
harridan
battle axe
bitch
brim
brimstone
cat
crow
dragon
faggot
fishwife
harpy
hellcat
jade
nag
nudnik
scold
she-devil
shrew
termagant
virago
vixen
witch
dragoon
drag queen
Great Red Dragon
Aduwallah
Adversary
Al-Shaytaan
Antichrist
archfiend
Ash-Shaytan
Azazel
Beast
Beelzebub
bogey
cosmocrat
deceiver
deuce
Devil
diablo
Diabolus
dickens
Enemy
Evil One
Father of Lies
Gog
Iblis
Jack Ketch
leviathan
lord of the flies
Related words
Derived words
accelerated dragon
adragonist
bearded dragon
blue dragon
chase the dragon
Chinese dragon
drag
draggy
dragon arum
dragonback
dragon beam
dragon boat
Dragon Boat Festival
dragon boating
dragonbone
Dragon Book
dragonborn
dragonbreath
dragon curve
dragon dance
dragondom
dragonesque
dragoness
dragonewt
dragonfire
dragonfish
dragon flag
dragonflame
dragonfly
dragon fruit
dragon gate
dragonhead
dragonhide
dragonhood
dragonise
dragonish
dragonism
dragonize
dragon kiln
dragonkin
dragonkind
dragonking
dragon lady
dragonlength
dragonless
dragonlet
Dragon Li
dragonlike
dragonling
dragon lizard
dragonlord
dragonlore
dragonly
dragon man
dragonmaster
dragonologist
dragonology
dragonproof
dragonrider
dragon roll
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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