dragon🔊

A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.

In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.

In Eastern Asian mythologies, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.

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

(obsolete) A very large snake; a python.

Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.

A Komodo dragon.

A sea dragon.

(astronomy) The constellation Draco.

(derogatory) A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan.

(UK, slang, rare, derogatory) An unattractive woman.

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

(figurative) Something very formidable or dangerous.

(mahjong) A class of playing tiles consisting of three types: white dragons, green dragons, and red dragons.

A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.

(military, weaponry, historical) A type of musket with a short, large-caliber barrel with a flared muzzle, often hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt.

(computing, rare) A background process similar to a daemon.

A variety of carrier pigeon.

(slang) A man who does drag or crossdresses, or sometimes by extension a male-to-female transgender person.