Dragon
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- obsolete A very large snake; a python.
- A mythical serpentine or reptilian creature.
- (Western) A gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like tail, often with fiery breath.
- c.1900 — Edith Nesbit, The Last of the Dragons
- But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon, and rescue a princess, the dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from.
- c.1900 — Edith Nesbit, The Last of the Dragons
- (Eastern) A large snake-like lizard with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag, and the claws of a tiger
- 1913 — Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, ch XIII
- These tapestries were magnificently figured with golden dragons; and as the serpentine bodies gleamed and shimmered in the increasing radiance, each dragon, I thought, intertwined its glittering coils more closely with those of another.
- 1913 — Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, ch XIII
- (Western) A gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like tail, often with fiery breath.
- A lizard of the genus Draco.
- The Komodo dragon.
- The constellation Draco.
- 1605 — William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, i 2
- My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior.
- 1605 — William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of King Lear, i 2
- pejorative An unpleasant woman; a harridan.
- She’s a bit of a dragon.
- "the dragon" The nickname for the People's Republic of China.
- (figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
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Synonyms
- (legendary creature): drake, monster, serpent, wyrm, wyvern, lindworm
- (unpleasant woman): battle-axe, bitch, harridan, shrew, termagant, virago
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