dragoon

dragoon

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French dragon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɹəˈɡuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

dragoon (plural dragoons)

1. (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
   • 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience

     If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
     Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon -
     Take all the remarkable people in history,
     Rattle them off to a popular tune!

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].

2. A carrier of a dragon musket.
3. A variety of pigeon.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Clarke to this entry?)

Coordinate terms

soldier

• cavalryman
• cuirassier
• hussar
• lancer
• trooper
• uhlan
• yeoman

Translations

horse soldier

Albanian: kalorës (sq) Arabic: فارِس‎ (ar) m (fāris) Armenian: դրագուններ (dragunner) Azerbaijani: draqun Belarusian: драгун m (drahun) Bulgarian: драгун m (dragun) Catalan: dragó (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 龍騎兵 (lóngqíbīng) Czech: dragoun (cs) m Danish: dragon (da) c Dutch: dragonder (nl) Esperanto: dragono Estonian: tragun Finnish: rakuuna (fi) French: dragon (fr) m Georgian: დრაგუნი (draguni) German: Dragoner (de) m Greek: δραγόνος (el) m (dragónos) Hebrew: דרגון‎ m (dragún) Hungarian: dragonyos (hu) Icelandic: dragóni m Ido: dragono (io) Indonesian: dragon (id) Irish: dragún m Italian: dragone (it) m

Japanese: 竜騎兵 (ja) (ryūgihei), ドラグーン (doragūn) Korean: 용기병 (yonggibyeong) Latvian: dragūns m Lithuanian: dragūnas m Macedonian: драгун m (dragun) Norwegian: Bokmål: dragon m Nynorsk: dragon m Persian: اسوار‎ (fa) (asvar) Polish: dragon (pl) m Portuguese: dragão (pt) m Romanian: dragon (ro) m Russian: драгу́н (ru) m (dragún) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: драгун m Roman: dragun (sh) m Slovak: dragún m Slovene: dragonec (sl) m Spanish: dragón (es) m Swedish: dragon (sv) c Tagalog: dragun Turkish: ağır süvari Ukrainian: драгу́н m (drahún) Vietnamese: long kỵ binh Volapük: (♂♀) drägun (vo), (♂) hidrägun, (♀) jidrägun, (obsolete) dragan Welsh: dragŵn m

carrier of a dragon musket

variety of pigeon

French: dragon (fr)

Further reading

• dragoon on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

dragoon (third-person singular simple present dragoons, present participle dragooning, simple past and past participle dragooned)

1. (transitive) To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce.

   Synonym: compel

2. (transitive) To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers.

Related terms

• dragooner

Translations

to force someone into doing something; to coerce

Bulgarian: принуждавам (bg) (prinuždavam)

Anagrams

• gadroon