Noun: dragon
| Singular | dragon |
| Plural | dragons |
Sample Sentences
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Medea for the loue of Iaſon, taught him how to tame the fire breathing braſſ feeted Bulls, and kill the mighty dragon that kept the golden fleece[.] [1632, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Henry Cryps, page 548:]
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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. [c. 1900, Edith Nesbit, The Last of the Dragons:]
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Before daylight, when the dragon flew home to sleep, he had burned up the hall and even the throne of the Geatish king. [1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 41:]
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They pitched the dragon / over the cliff-top, let tide's flow / and backwash take the treasure-minder. [1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 98:]
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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. [1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu:]
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My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior. [c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:]
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She’s a bit of a dragon.
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Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.
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our dragoons were so denominated because they were armed with dragons, that is, with short muskets, which spouted fire like dragons, and had the head of a dragon wrought upon their muzzle [1886, Charles Gould, Mythical Monsters:]
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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 […] [1995, Harley Hahn, The UNIX Companion, page 420:]
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Many of the postmaster functions are actually handled by computer software such as dragons and mailer daemons. [2018, J. K. Petersen, Fiber Optics Illustrated Dictionary:]
Nouns inflected like dragon
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *derḱ-der.
3. Proto-Hellenic *dérkomai
4. Ancient Greek δέρκομαι (dérkomai)
5. Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn)der.
6. Latin dracōslbor.
7. Old French dragonbor.
8. Middle English dragoun
9. English dragon
10. 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. See: Middle English Nouns '
dragoun', Latin Nouns '
draco', Ancient Greek Nouns '
δράκων', Old English Nouns '
wyrm', Old English Nouns '
draca'.
Verbs referencing "dragon"
English Nouns
dora.