android

[an-droid] Example Sentences Origin

an·droid

[an-droid]
noun
an automaton in the form of a human being.

Origin:
1720–30; < Neo-Latin androīdēs. See andr-, -oid
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Example Sentences
  • Android skins may be slow and tacky, but phone makers continue to use them.
  • All of these would require me to trundle along a magazine which takes up space, but my android phone resolves that.
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World English Dictionary
android (ˈændrɔɪd)
 
n
1.  (in science fiction) a robot resembling a human being
 
adj
2.  resembling a human being
 
[C18: from Late Greek androeidēs manlike; see andro-, -oid]

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Word Origin & History

android
"automaton resembling a human being," 1727, from Mod.L. androides, from Gk. andro- "human" + eides "form, shape." Listed as "rare" in OED (1879), popularized from c.1951 by science fiction writers.
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Medical Dictionary

android an·droid (ān'droid')
adj.
Possessing human features and form.

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