Definitions for Dragon
ˈdræg ənDragon

Princeton's WordNet(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. dragon, firedrake(noun)

   a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

2. dragon, tartar(noun)

   a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman

3. Draco, Dragon(noun)

   a faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus

4. dragon, flying dragon, flying lizard(noun)

   any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. dragon(Noun)

   A legendary, serpentine or reptilian creature.

2. dragon(Noun)

   An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:

3. dragon(Noun)

   The constellation Draco.

4. dragon(Noun)

   An unpleasant woman; a harridan.

   She's a bit of a dragon.

5. dragon(Noun)

   The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.

   Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.

6. dragon(Noun)

   Something very formidable or dangerous.

7. Dragon(ProperNoun)

   the Devil.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dragon(noun)

   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. Dragon(noun)

   a fierce, violent person, esp. a woman

3. Dragon(noun)

   a constellation of the northern hemisphere figured as a dragon; Draco

4. Dragon(noun)

   a luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent

5. Dragon(noun)

   a short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle

6. Dragon(noun)

   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. Dragon(noun)

   a variety of carrier pigeon

8. Dragon(noun)

   a fabulous winged creature, sometimes borne as a charge in a coat of arms

Origin: [F. dragon, L. draco, fr. Gr. dra`kwn, prob. fr. de`rkesqai, dra`kein, to look (akin to Skr. dar to see), and so called from its terrible eyes. Cf. Drake a dragon, Dragoon.]

Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dragon

   A dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that features in the myths of many cultures. There are two distinct cultural traditions of dragons: the European dragon, derived from European folk traditions and ultimately related to Greek and Middle Eastern mythologies, and the Chinese dragon, with counterparts in Japan, Korea and other East Asian countries. The two traditions may have evolved separately, but have influenced each other to a certain extent, particularly with the cross-cultural contact of recent centuries. The English word "dragon" derives from Greek δράκων, "dragon, serpent of huge size, water-snake".

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Dragon

   drag′un, n. a fabulous winged serpent: the constellation Draco: a fierce person: the flying lizard of the East Indies.—ns. Drag′onet, a little dragon: a genus of fishes of the goby family; Drag′on-fly, an insect with a long body and brilliant colours.—v.t. Drag′onise, to turn into a dragon: to watch like a dragon.—adjs. Drag′onish, Drag′on-like.—n. Drag′onism, watchful guardianship.—adj. Dragonné (her.), like a dragon in the hinder part, and a lion or the like in the fore part.—ns. Drag′on's-blood, the red resinous exudation of several kinds of trees in the W. and E. Indies, used for colouring; Drag′on's-head, a plant of genus Dracocephalum, of the mint family (Labiatæ): (her.) tenné or tawny when blazoning is done by the heavenly bodies; Drag′on-shell, a cowry; Drag′on's-wort, tarragon or snake-weed; Drag′on-tree (same as Dracæna). [Fr.,—L. draco, draconis—Gr. drakōn, from aorist of derk-esthai, to look.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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 Greek mythology 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.

The New Hacker's Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

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.

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1. dragon

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British National Corpus

1. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Dragon' in Nouns Frequency: #2605

How to pronounce Dragon ?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say Dragon in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dragon in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Dragon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Dragon in a Sentence

1. Shelly Roche:

   He has the heart of a dragon.

2. Bob Grant:

   Naming Hillary “The Dragon Lady”

3. Melaine Rawn, Dragon Star 1: Stronghold:

   Consult your dragon before you wager his hide.

4. Mark McCaughrean:

   This is not a 'dead' body, it's a living, breathing dragon of a comet.

5. Havelock Ellis:

   Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

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