dragon
Meanings
Plural: dragons
Noun
- a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
- a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
- a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus
- any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
- 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.
- A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
- 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.
- An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
- Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
- An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
- A Komodo dragon.
- An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
- A sea dragon.
- The constellation Draco.
- A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.
- An unattractive woman.
- The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
- Something very formidable or dangerous.
- A class of playing tiles consisting of three types: white dragons, green dragons, and red dragons.
- A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
- 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.
- A background process similar to a daemon.
- A variety of carrier pigeon.
- A man who does drag or crossdresses, or sometimes by extension a male-to-female transgender person.
Origin / 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, “I see clearly”). Mostly displaced Old English draca (whence modern drake)—from the same Latin source, as are Draco, dracone, and dragoon.
Synonyms
derg, Draco, dragon lady, dragoon, drake, dwaggy, firedrake, flying dragon, flying lizard, lindworm, shrew, tartar, wyrm, wyvern
Scrabble Score: 8
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