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dragon
[ drag-uhn ]
noun
- a mythical monster generally represented as a huge, winged reptile with crested head and enormous claws and teeth, and often spouting fire.
- Archaic. a huge serpent or snake.
- Bible. a large animal, possibly a large snake or crocodile.
- the dragon, Satan.
- a fierce, violent person.
- a very watchful and strict woman; duenna.
- Botany. any of several araceous plants, as Arisaema dracontium green dragon, or dragonroot, the flowers of which have a long, slender spadix and a green, shorter spathe.
- a short musket carried by a mounted infantryman in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- a soldier armed with such a musket. dragoon ( defs 1, 2, 3 ).
- Dragon, Astronomy. the constellation Draco.
dragon
/ ˈdræɡən /
noun
- a mythical monster usually represented as breathing fire and having a scaly reptilian body, wings, claws, and a long tail
- informal.a fierce or intractable person, esp a woman
- any of various very large lizards, esp the Komodo dragon
- any of various North American aroid plants, esp the green dragon
- Christianity a manifestation of Satan or an attendant devil
- a yacht of the International Dragon Class, 8.88m long (29.2 feet), used in racing
- chase the dragon slang.to smoke opium or heroin
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Derived Forms
- ˈdragonish, adjective
- ˈdragoness, noun:feminine
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Other Words From
- drag·on·ish adjective
- drag·on·like adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dragon1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of dragon1
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Idioms and Phrases
- chase the dragon, Slang. to inhale the vapor of heated heroin or another opiate drug.
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Example Sentences
How to Train Your Dragon 2, the tenth highest grossing movie in 2014 America, made $22 million at the Korean box office.
In one picture, his head gets ripped off by a blue dragon; in another, he is the blue dragon.
Screen-filling enemies like the aforementioned dragon come early and they come often.
Look at The Killing, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, all of these Scandinavian things with female investigators.
Consider a song like “Crayon” by G-Dragon, a member of the boy band Big Bang.
They would never connive at this second sowing of the dragon's teeth of Cadmus.
Aristide darted off like a dragon-fly in the sunshine, as happy as a child with a new toy.
Now an automobile was a marvellous dragon for Rosemary, and she could never see too many for her pleasure.
It was a dragon-fly personally conducting two moles through a rose-garden.
The dragon tree is the slowest of growth among vegetables; it seems also to be slowest in decay.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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