draw – English noun declension

English noun forms of draw

Noun: draw
Singulardraw
Pluraldraws

Sample Sentences

  • At the mountain’s base is the leafy suburb of Kowloon Tong. It has never been a big tourist draw, but in the decade since territorial control returned to China, this quintessentially Hong Kong neighborhood has had many more visitors — and important changes. [2007 June 24, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “Hong Kong Is Reshaped by Mainlanders”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015, Asia Pacific:]
  • After It, Clara became one of the top box-office draws in Hollywood, but her popularity was short lived. [2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 1, 27:]
  • the Wild West's quick-draw champion
  • The draw is on Saturday.
  • Having spent more than £500,000 on players last summer, Crawley can hardly be classed as minnows but they have still punched way above their weight and this kind of performance means no-one will relish pulling them out of the hat in Sunday's draw. [2011 January 29, Chris Bevan, “Torquay 0 - 1 Crawley Town”, in BBC:]
  • This configuration offered the capacity for an exceptionally long draw – Manchu archers drew all the way back to the point of the right shoulder[…] [2016 August 25, Mike Loades, The Composite Bow, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 21:]
  • The game ended in a draw.
  • They're going to take away our draw! (referring to e.g. disability assistance)
  • She looked in [to the stove] and a tight, dismayed gasp escaped her. She slammed the door shut and adjusted the draw with trembling fingers. For a moment—just a moment—she had seen her old friend Annabelle Frane in the coals. [1981, Stephen King, Do the Dead Sing?:]
  • The garden, curiously enough, was a quarter of a mile from the house, and the way to it led up a shallow draw past the cattle corral. [1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 15:]
  • So my friends and I would all chip in money to get a bag of weed or a draw. [2011, Yvonne Ellis, Daughter, Arise: A Journey from Devastation to Restoration, page 54:]
  • I'm twenty-something young with my priorities straight / I need to buy a booze and I need to buy a draw [2025, “Young”, performed by Little Simz:]
  • Selling draw to your mates but it's really Oxo cubes. [2003, “Soap Bar”, in The Manifesto, performed by Goldie Looking Chain:]
  • Mick spoke to Simon, who was more of a drinker. He said that people who smoked draw were boring. [2017, Michael Coleman, Old Skool Rave, page 139:]
  • The player to your left immediately raises you the minimum by clicking the raise button. This action immediately suggests that he's on a draw [2007, Ryan Wiseman, Earn $30,000 Per Month Playing Online Poker: A Step-By-Step Guide to Single, page 82:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *dʰrógʰ-e-ti
4. Proto-Germanic *draganą
5. Proto-West Germanic *dragan
6. Old English dragan
7. Middle English drawen
8. English draw
9. The verb is derived from Middle English dragen, draghen, draue, drauen, drauhen, drawe, drawen, draȝe, draȝen, draȝhenn (“to drag, pull; to draw (out); to attract; to entice, lure; to lead; to make a drawing; to move, travel; etc.”), from Old English dragan (“to drag, draw”), from Proto-West Germanic *dragan (“to carry, haul”), from Proto-Germanic *draganą (“to carry, draw, pull”); further etymology uncertain, often said to be from Proto-Indo-European *dʰregʰ- (“to drag, pull, run”), but possibly from a non-Indo-European substrate root which is also the source of Latin trahō (“to pull, draw; etc.”). Doublet of drag and draught.
10. The noun is derived from Middle English drau, draue (“action of shooting with a bow”), from drauen, drawen (verb).
11. Cognates
12. Cognate with North Frisian drai, dreeg, dreege (“to carry; to wear”), West Frisian drage (“to carry”), Central Franconian draan, drage, droon (“to bear, carry”), Dutch dragen (“to carry; to wear; to transfer”), German tragen (“to bear, carry; to wear; to support”), Low German dregen (“to carry, take”), Luxembourgish droen (“to carry; to hold, support; to wear; to travel; to fruit”), Yiddish טראָגן (trogn, “to carry, to wear; to be pregnant”), Zealandic draege, draoge (“to carry”), Danish drage (“to draw”), Elfdalian drågå (“to drag, draw, pull”), Faroese and Icelandic draga (“to drag, draw, pull”), Gutnish dräga (“to pull”), Norwegian Bokmål dra, drage (“to drag, draw, pull”), Norwegian Nynorsk dra, draga, drage, drågå, dråggå (“to drag, pull; to leave”), Swedish dra, draga (“to draw, pull; to consume; to leave; to run; to steep”), Gothic 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌽 (dragan, “to carry, draw, pull”); also Old Irish droch (“wheel; circlet”), Latin tragō, trahō (“to drag, pull; to trail; to extract; to plunder; to draw out; to protract; to consider, ponder, weigh”), Greek τρέχω (trécho, “to run; to flee; to flow; to execute”), Russian дро́га (dróga, “rail or perch in a cart”), Armenian դուրգ (durg, “to potter’s wheel”). See: Old English Nouns 'dragan', Latin Nouns 'trahō', Danish Nouns 'drage', Latin Nouns 'tragō'.

Verbs referencing "draw"

Norwegian Bokmål Nouns draft, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns draft.