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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android (ˈændrɔɪd) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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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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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android an·droid (ān'droid')
adj.
Possessing human features and form.

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Example sentences
If she was an android, only the captain's advanced skills would do, usually.
Until the android troopers showed up, nobody ever got shot, nobody was ever killed.
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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