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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dr?g'?n, IPA^(key): /?d?æ??n/
• Rhymes: -æ??n

Etymology 1

From Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin drac?, drac?nem, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from ???????? (dérkomai, “I see clearly”). Doublet of Draco and dragoon.

Noun

dragon (plural dragons)

1. A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:dragon.
   1. In Western mythology, 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.

   2. In Eastern mythology, 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, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, chapter XIII:

        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.

2. An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
   1. (obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
   2. Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
   3. A Komodo dragon.
3. (astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
   • 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 2:

     My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior.

4. (derogatory) A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.

   She’s a bit of a dragon.

5. (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.

6. (figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
7. A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong.
8. A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
9. (military, historical) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)

10. (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 […]
11. A variety of carrier pigeon.

Synonyms

• (legendary creature): drake, wyrm, wyvern, lindworm, afgod (heraldry, obsolete)
• (unpleasant woman): dragon lady, see also Thesaurus:shrew

Hypernyms

• (legendary creature): monster, serpent

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Bengali: ?????? (?ragôn)
• ? Japanese: ???? (doragon)
• ? Marathi: ?????? (?r?gan)
• ? Marshallese: t?r?ik?n
• ? Swahili: dragoni
• ? Tamil: ??????? (?ir?ka?)

Translations

See also

• basilisk
• Saint George
• serpent
• stoor worm/Stoor Worm
• zilant/Zilant

Further reading

• dragon in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 2

Derived from drag queen.

Noun

dragon (plural dragons)

1. (slang) A transvestite man, or more broadly 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.

Anagrams

• Dorgan, Gordan, gardon

Danish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o??n

Etymology 1

Noun

dragon c (singular definite dragonen, plural indefinite dragoner)

1. a dragoon (soldier of the mounted infantry)

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin dragon, from Arabic ????????? (?ar??n), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (drakóntion).

Noun

dragon c (singular definite dragonen, plural indefinite dragoner)

1. (archaic) tarragon

   Synonym: esdragon

References

• “dragon” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dra????n/
• Hyphenation: dra?gon
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle French dragon, from Arabic ????????? (?ar??n), from Ancient Greek ?????????? (drakóntion).

Noun

dragon m (uncountable)

1. The edible Mediterranean herb Artemisia dracunculus (tarragon), used as a salad spice
2. The plant Erysimum cheiranthoides

Synonyms

• (Erysium cheiranthoides):) steenraket

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French dragon.

Noun

dragon m (plural dragons, diminutive dragonnetje n)

1. A (French) dragoon

Hypernyms

• dragonder

French

Etymology

From Old French dragon, from Latin drac?nem, accusative of drac?, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n). Doublet of drac.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?a.???/

Noun

dragon m (plural dragons, feminine dragonne)

1. a dragon, creature or person
2. a dragoon

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

• “dragon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• gardon
• gronda

Middle English

Noun

dragon

1. 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.

   • 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.

Norman

Alternative forms

• dragoun (continental Normandy)

Etymology

From Old French dragon, from Latin drac?, drac?nem, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n).

Pronunciation

Noun

dragon m (plural dragons)

1. (Jersey, Guernsey) dragon
2. (Jersey, Guernsey, nautical) flying jib

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

dragon m (definite singular dragonen, indefinite plural dragoner, definite plural dragonene)

1. a dragoon (soldier of the mounted infantry)

References

• “dragon” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

dragon m (definite singular dragonen, indefinite plural dragonar, definite plural dragonane)

1. a dragoon (soldier of the mounted infantry)

References

• “dragon” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Verb

dragon

1. to behave
2. to acquire

Inflection

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: dr?gen
  • Dutch: dragen
  • Limburgish: drage
  • Zealandic: draege

Further reading

• “dragon”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old French

Alternative forms

• dragun (Anglo-Norman)

Etymology

From Latin drac?, drac?nem, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n).

Noun

dragon m (oblique plural dragons, nominative singular dragons, nominative plural dragon)

1. dragon (mythical animal)

Descendants

• Middle French: dracon
  • French: dragon (see there for further descendants)
• Norman: dragon
• ? Middle English: dragoun, dragon, dragun, dragoune
  • English: dragon
    • ? Bengali: ?????? (?ragôn)
    • ? Japanese: ???? (doragon)
    • ? Marathi: ?????? (?r?gan)
    • ? Marshallese: t?r?ik?n
    • ? Swahili: dragoni
    • ? Tamil: ??????? (?ir?ka?)
  • Scots: draigon
• ? Old Irish: dragán
  • Irish: dragan
  • Manx: dragan

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin drac?nem, accusative of drac?, from Ancient Greek ?????? (drák?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [d?a??õn]

Noun

dragon m (plural dragones)

1. dragon
   • c. 1250: Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 103r.

     Et e?to faz de?cédiédo ?obrella la uertud de fi?a de o?e cubierto duna ?auana. ¬ cauallero ?obre un dragó ¬ teniédo en ?u mano die?tra una láça.

     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 ?eelladas. que los antigos gardauan. / Et presta pora echar los dragones. ¬ las ?irpientes. de los lugares.

     And it is akin to the sealed stones that the ancients kept. And it is good for expeling dragons and snakes from any place.

Descendants

• Spanish: drago, dragón
  • ? Tagalog: dragon
  • ? Waray-Waray: dragon

Old Welsh

Noun

dragon m

1. commander, war leader

Quotations

Related terms

• pendragon m

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French dragon, from Latin drac?, drac?nem. Doublet of the inherited drac (“devil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dra??on/

Noun

dragon m (plural dragoni)

1. a dragon (mythical creature)
2. a flying lizard species (of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona)
3. (astronomy, often capitalized, with definite articulation) Draco (constellation)
4. (military) a dragoon (horse soldier)

Declension

Synonyms

• (mythical creature): balaur

Related terms

• drac

References

• dragon in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dra??u?n/

Noun

dragon c

1. a dragoon (soldier of the mounted infantry)
2. the perennial herb tarragon
3. leaves of that plant, used as seasoning

Declension

Related terms

• dragonregemente
• dragonättika
• dragonört

Descendants

• ? Finnish: rakuuna

References

• dragon in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• grodan