Meaning

4 senses

  1. A fire-breathing dragon.

    a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings

  2. A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket

  3. A kind of firework

  4. (figuratively, poetic)A worker at a furnace or fire

Examples

1 sentences

  1. The hero ventured into the cave to slay the fearsome firedrake.

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Origin

From Middle English firdrake, from Old English fȳrdraca (“fire-spewing dragon”), equivalen

From Middle English firdrake, from Old English fȳrdraca (“fire-spewing dragon”), equivalent to fire + drake.

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Forms

plural: firedrakes
Singularfiredrake
Pluralfiredrakes

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings:European dragondragon

Word family

1 related words
Relatedearthdrake

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fireballfirebrandfirecrackerfirefightfirefighterB1firefly
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