Etymology: (1175–1225; ME < OF < L dracōn-, s. of dracō < Gk drákōn kind of serpent)
Definition of 'Dragon'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)dragon, firedrake a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
2. (noun)dragon, tartar a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
3. (noun)Draco, Dragon a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus
4. (noun)dragon, flying dragon, flying lizard any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body
1. (noun)dragon a mythical animal that breathes fire
Definition of 'Dragon'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)Dragon a fabulous animal, generally represented as a monstrous winged serpent or lizard, with a crested head and enormous claws, and regarded as very powerful and ferocious
2. (noun)Dragon a fierce, violent person, esp. a woman
3. (noun)Dragon a constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco
4. (noun)Dragon a luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent
5. (noun)Dragon a shortmusket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle
6. (noun)Dragon a small arboreal lizard of the genus Draco, of several species, found in the East Indies and Southern Asia. Five or six of the hind ribs, on each side, are prolonged and covered with weblike skin, forming a sort of wing. These prolongations aid them in making long leaps from tree to tree. Called also flying lizard
7. (noun)Dragon a variety of carrier pigeon
8. (noun)Dragon a fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms
Definitions of 'Dragon'
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
1. Dragon a fabulous monster, being a hideous impersonation of some form of deadly evil, which only preternatural heroic strength and courage can subdue, and on the subdual and slaying of which depends the achievement of some conquest of vital moment to the human race or some members of it; is represented in mediæval art as a large, lizard-like animal, with the claws of a lion, the wings of an eagle, and the tail of a serpent, with open jaws ready and eager to devour, which some knight high-mounted thrusts at to pierce to death with a spear; in the Greekmythology it is represented with eyes ever on the watch, in symbol of the evil that waylays us to kill us if we don't kill it, as in guarding the "Apples of the Hesperides" and the "Golden Fleece," because these are prizes that fall only to those who are as watchful of him as he is of them; and it is consecrated to Minerva to signify that true wisdom, as sensible of the ever-wakeful dragon, never goes to sleep, but is equally ever on the watch.
Definitions of 'Dragon'
The New Hacker's Dictionary
1. Dragon [MIT] A program similar to a daemon, except
that it is not invoked at all, but is instead used by the system to perform
various secondary tasks. A typical example would be an accounting program,
which keeps track of who is logged in, accumulates load-average statistics,
etc. Under ITS, many terminals displayed a list of people logged in, where
they were, what they were running, etc., along with some random picture
(such as a unicorn, Snoopy, or the Enterprise), which was generated by the
‘name dragon’. Usage: rare outside MIT — under Unix and
most other OSes this would be called a background demon or
daemon. The best-known Unix example of a dragon is
cron(1).
At SAIL, they called this sort of thing a phantom.
Definitions of Dragon 
Afrikaans: draak
Arabic: تِنّين
Bulgarian: дракон
Brazilian: dragão
Czech: drak
German: der Drache
Danish: dragon
Greek: δράκος
Spanish: dragón
Estonian: lohe(madu)
Farsi: اژدها
Finnish: lohikäärme
French: dragon
Hebrew: דְרָקוֹן
Hindi: एक मिथकीय पशु, आग उगलने व
Croatian: zmaj
Hungarian: sárkány
Indonesian: naga
Icelandic: dreki
Italian: dragone, drago
Japanese: 竜
Korean: 용
Lithuanian: slibinas
Latvian: pūķis
Malay: naga
Dutch: draak
Norwegian: drake
Polish: smok
Persian: اژدها
Pashto: ښامار
Portuguese: dragão
Romanian: balaur
Russian: дракон
Slovak: drak
Slovenian: zmaj
Serbian: zmaj
Swedish: drake
Thai: มังกร
Turkish: ejderha
Taiwanese: 龍
Ukrainian: дракон
Urdu: ایک فرضی روایتی اژدہے نما
Vietnamese: con rồng
Chinese: 龙
