Dragon

Noun

 * 1) A legendary, serpentine or reptilian creature.
 * 2)  An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
 * 3)  The constellation Draco.
 * 4)  An unpleasant woman; a harridan.
 * 5)  The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
 * 6)  Something very formidable or dangerous.

Thesaurus
lizard, mad dog, madcap, matamata, mermaid, merman, monitor, monster, mugger, nixie, ogre, ogress, rapist, revolutionary, roc, salamander, satyr, savage, sea horse, sea serpent, sea turtle, she-wolf, siren, soft-shelled turtle, sorehead, spitfire, stump tail, teju, termagant, terrapin, terror, terrorist, tiger, tigress, tortoise, tough, tough guy, troll, tuatara, turtle, ugly customer, unicorn, vampire, violent, virago, vixen, werewolf, wild beast, windigo, witch, wolf, xiphopagus, zombie, Argus, Briareus, Cerberus, Charybdis, Cyclops, Echidna, Gila monster, Gorgon, Harpy, Hydra, Loch Ness monster, Mafioso, Medusa, Minotaur, Pegasus, Python, Scylla, Sphinx, Talos, Tartar, Typhon, Young Turk, agama, alligator, anole, bear, bearded lizard, beast, beldam, berserk, berserker, blindworm, bomber, box turtle, brute, butterfly agama, cayman, centaur, chameleon, chimera, cockatrice, crank, crocodile, crosspatch, demon, devil, diamondback, drake, false map turtle, feist, fiend, fire-eater, firebrand, flying dragon, fury, gavial, gecko, girdle-tailed lizard, glass snake, goon, gorilla, green turtle, griffin, grizzly bear, grouch, gunsel, hardnose, hawksbill, hawksbill turtle, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, hippocampus, holy terror, hood, hoodlum, hothead, hotspur, iguana, incendiary, killer, leatherback,

Etymology
From dragon:, from  draco:, from  δράκων:, probably from δρακεῖν:, aorist active infinitive of δέρκομαι:.

Pronunciation

 * ,, {{SAMPA|/"dr{g@n/}}

Derived terms

 * bearded dragon
 * Chinese dragon
 * dragon beam
 * dragon boat
 * dragon boat festival
 * dragoness
 * dragonet
 * dragonfish
 * dragonfly
 * dragon fruit
 * dragonhead
 * dragonish


 * dragon lady
 * dragon's blood
 * dragonslayer
 * dragon tie
 * dragon tree
 * dragon worm
 * feed the dragon
 * grand dragon
 * komodo dragon
 * leafy sea dragon
 * reluctant dragon
 * snapdragon

Related terms

 * draconine
 * draco
 * dracula
 * drake
 * dragoon

Synonyms

 * (legendary creature): drake, monster, serpent, wyrm, wyvern, lindworm
 * (unpleasant woman): battle-axe, bitch, harridan, shrew, termagant, virago

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:
 * Aragonese:
 * Aramaic: תנינא
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azeri:
 * Roman:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Basque:
 * Bosnian:, , ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Croatian:, zmajica, zmajevi
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, (archaic) lintworm
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient:
 * Modern:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: अजगर
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: (kyūjitai: ),
 * Kazakh: айдаһар
 * Khmer: (nīk)
 * Khmer: (nīk)


 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Latgalian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian: pūķis, drakons
 * Lithuanian: drakonas, slibinas
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian:, , , ламја,
 * Malay:
 * Maltese:
 * Manx: ,
 * Mongolian: луу
 * Norman: dragon
 * Norwegian:, lindorm, linnorm, sjøslange
 * Occitan: dragon
 * Old English: draca
 * Old High German: trahho
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Scots:
 * Scottish Gaelic: nathair-sgiathach
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: змај аждаја, aлa
 * Roman: zmaj, aždaja , ala
 * Slovak: drak, šarkan (1)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, guiverno heraldic dragon
 * Swedish: drake (1), lindorm
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Urdu:
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: drak,  hidrak,  jidrak,  drakül,  hidrakül,  jidrakül,  dlak
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: דראַקאָן
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: דראַקאָן


 * Czech: saň
 * Dutch: draak, dragonder
 * Finnish:


 * Macedonian:, ламја, караконџула
 * Portuguese:


 * Dutch: de Draak


 * Finnish:


 * Dutch:

Etymology 1
From

Noun

 * 1) The edible Mediterranean herb Artemisia dracunculus, used as a salad spice
 * 2) The plant Erysimum cheiranthoides

Synonyms

 * (second plant) steenraket

Etymology 2
French (see below)

Noun

 * 1) A (French) dragoon

Synonyms

 * dragonder

Etymology
From draco

Noun

 * 1) A dragon, creature or person
 * 2) A dragoon

Derived terms

 * aller voir défiler les dragons
 * bateau-dragon
 * dragon de Komodo
 * dragon de Patagonie
 * dragon volant


 * dragonnade
 * dragonne
 * dragonneau
 * dragonnier
 * sang-de-dragon

Anagrams

 * gardon
 * gronda

Alternative forms

 * dragun

Noun
dragon


 * 1) A dragon.
 * 2) * 1382 — Wyclif's Bible, Daniel 14:26
 * Therfor Daniel took pitch, and talow, and heeris, and sethide togidere; and he made gobetis, and yaf in to the mouth of the dragun; and the dragun was al to-brokun.
 * 1) * 1380-1399 — Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Parson's Tale
 * For God seith thus by Moyses: they shul been wasted with hunger, and the briddes of helle shul devouren hem with bitter deeth, and the galle of the dragon shal been hire drynke, and the venym of the dragon hire morsels.

Noun

 * 1)  (mythical animal)

Noun

 * 1) commander, war leader

Noun

 * 1) The perennial herb tarragon
 * 2) The leaves of that plant, used as seasoning