dragon

Meaning

Noun

• A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
• An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
• The constellation Draco.
• A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.
• The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
• Something very formidable or dangerous.
• A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong.
• A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
• 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.
• A background process similar to a daemon.
• A variety of carrier pigeon.
• A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person.

Related

Similar words

• drake, wyrm, wyvern, lindworm, afgod , dwaggy

Broader meaning words

• monster, serpent

Origin

• From Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin draco, from Ancient Greek δράκων ("a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon"), probably from δέρκομαι. Draco, and dragoon.
• Derived from drag queen.