Meaning

8 senses

  1. A male duck (bird).

    Erpel, Enterich, Entenmännchen

    се́лезеньsélezenʹ

    ка́чурkáčur

    adult male of a wild or domestic duck

  2. (poetic)Dragon

    Drache

  3. Dragon

    (poetic)Lesser draconic creature

  4. Beaked galley, or Viking warship

  5. (historical)Small piece of artillery

  6. A fiery meteor (variously known as fiery serpents and dragons in many cultures)

  7. (archaic)Mayfly

  8. Mayfly

    (archaic)A mayfly used as fishing bait

Examples

8 sentences

  1. Drake earns his living by working for the lawyer.

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  2. The duck laid three eggs, out of which there came one morning two little fluffy ducklings and a little ugly drake.

    deDie Ente legte drei Eier, woraus eines Morgens zwei flauschige kleine Entlein und ein hässlicher kleiner Drache schlüpften.

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  3. Nick Drake was an English musician.

    deNick Drake war ein englischer Musiker.

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  4. Perry decided to gain information from Drake.

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  5. Pink Moon was Nick Drake's final album.

    de„Pink Moon“ („Rosaroter Mond“) war das letzte Album von Nick Drake.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
male duck:
Русский
By meaning 1
male duck:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
male duck:
small dragon:

Origin

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), either from Old English *draca, *andraca (

From Middle English drake (“male duck, drake”), either from Old English *draca, *andraca (“male duck, drake”) or from Middle Low German drâke, andrâke, from Proto-West Germanic *anadrekō (“drake”, literally “duck leader”). Cognate with Low German drake (“drake”), Dutch draak (“drake”), German Enterich (“drake”). More at annet.

From Middle English drake (“dragon; Satan”), from Old English draca (“dragon, sea monster, huge serpent”), from Proto-West Germanic *drakō (“dragon”), from Latin dracō (“dragon”), from Ancient Greek δράκων (drákōn, “serpent, giant seafish”), from δέρκομαι (dérkomai, “to see clearly”). Compare Middle Dutch drake and German Drache. Doublet of dragon.

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Forms

plural: drakes
Singulardrake
Pluraldrakes

regular

Synonyms

5 synonyms
dragondragonshipdrakefly
Close in meaning
  • English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada (1540-1596):Francis DrakeSir Francis Drake

Word family

11 related words
Derivedbrown drakedrakeletdrakelingdrakeskinsheldrakewood drakeearthdrakefiredrakegreen drakeicedrakesea drake

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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