dragon
A mythical reptilian or serpentine creatureA mythical reptilian or serpentine creature.: In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizard-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
» I wish I were a dragon.
Хотел бы я быть драконом.
Хотів би я бути драконом.
Шкода, що я не дракон.
Значение
значений: 17A mythical reptilian or serpentine creature.
In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizard-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
Drache
драко́нdrakón, змейzmej, смокsmok
змійzmij, змії́хаzmijíxa, драко́нdrakón
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:
Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
A Komodo dragon.
A sea dragon.
(с заглавной буквы, часто, with definite article)The constellation Draco.
(пренебрежительное)A fierce and unpleasant woman.
She’s a bit of a dragon.
Drache
крокоди́лkrokodíl, меге́раmegéra, сте́рваstérva
a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman
(Британия, пренебрежительное, редкое, сленг)An unattractive woman.
(с заглавной буквы, часто, with definite article)The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.
Drache
(переносно)Something very formidable or dangerous.
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.
Примеры
предложений: 254I wish I were a dragon.
Хотел бы я быть драконом.
ukХотів би я бути драконом.
Tom killed the dragon.
Том убил дракона.
deTom erschlug den Drachen.
Was that a dragon?
Это был дракон?
The dragon is an imaginary creature.
Дракон — это выдуманное существо.
ukДракон — це вигадана істота.
deDer Drache ist ein Fantasiewesen.
I have a tattoo of a dragon on my chest.
У меня на груди татуировка дракона.
Переводы
языков: 9По значениям 1
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Происхождение
From Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō(n), from AnFrom Middle English dragoun, borrowed from Old French dragon, from Latin dracō(n), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “a serpent of huge size, a python, a dragon”), probably from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see clearly”). Displaced Old English wyrm, whence modern worm. Mostly displaced Old English draca (whence modern drake)—from the same Latin source, as are Draco, Dracon, dracone, and dragoon.
Alteration from drag queen.
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Формы
мн. число: dragonsСинонимы
синонимов: 41- any of several small tropical Asian lizards capable of gliding by spreading winglike membranes on each side of the body:flying dragonflying lizard
- a fiercely vigilant and unpleasant woman:tartar
- a faint constellation twisting around the North Celestial Pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus:Draco
- a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings:European dragonfiredrake