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Definition: Dragoon |
DragoonNoun1. A member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen. Verb1. Compel by threatening. 2. Subjugate by imposing troops. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dragoon" was first used: 1622. (references) |
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Satire | DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | DRAGOON |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A dragoon is a soldier trained to fight on foot, but transport himself on horseback. In other words, they move as cavalry but fight as infantry. The name derives from their primary weapon, a carbine or short musket called the "dragon."
Dragoons were organized not in squadrons but in companies, like the foot, and their officers and non-commissioned officers bore infantry titles. However, dragoons were at a disadvantage when engaged against true cavalry, and constantly sought to improve their horsemanship and armament to the cavalry standard. Thus, "dragoon" came to mean medium cavalry by the time of the early wars of Frederick the Great.
The term "to dragoon" dates from the earlier mounted infantry period. Dragoons were the most efficient and economical form of cavalry for police work and guerrilla warfare.
A breed of Pigeon, see America Dragoon Club pages at http://members.tripod.com/~AmericanDragoonClub/
A range of mountains near Tombstone, Arizona, once the stronghold of Apache chief Cochise.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Dragoon."
Synonym: DragoonSynonym: railroad (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Horse and foot; horse soldier; cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur, uhlan,mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier; Foot Guards, Horse Guards. |
Compulsion | Force upon, press; cram down the throat, thrust down the throat, force down the throat; say it must be done, make a point of, insist upon, take no denial; put down, dragoon. |
Insolence | Domineer, bully, dictate, hector; lord it over; traiter de haut en bas, regarder de haut en bas; exact; snub, huff., beard, fly in the face of; put to the blush; bear down, beat down; browbeat, intimidate; trample down, tread down, trample under foot; dragoon, ride roughshod over. |
Malevolence | Molest, worry, harass, haunt, harry, bait, tease; throw stones at; play the devil with; hunt down, dragoon, hound; persecute, oppress, grind; maltreat; illtreat, ill-use. |
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Crosswords: Dragoon |
| English words defined with "dragoon": Dragooned, Dragooner, Dragooning ♦ umbrella bird. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dragoon": Black Horse ♦ object-oriented programming. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dragoon" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Manx (dragoon). |
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Screenplays | Why, by God, girl, that's a Colt Dragoon! You're no bigger than a corn nubbin', what're you doing with all this pistol? (True Grit; writing credit: Charles Portis; Marguerite Roberts) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957) Panzer Dragoon Orta (2003) The Legend of Dragoon (2000) | |
Song Titles | Amazing Grace (performing artist: Royal Scots Dragoon Guards) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Dragoon. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Anoatok, Dragoon, [and] Acushla, start, I.H. Reg. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Camp of the 4th Dragoon Guards near Karyni. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Captain Webb's hut, 4th Dragoon Guards. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Major Burton & officers of the 5th Dragoon Guards. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Captain Bernard, 5th Dragoon Guards. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Captain Halford, 5th Dragoon Guards. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Major Radcliffe, 5th Dragoon Guards. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Captain Inglis, 5th Dragoon Guards. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Group of 4th Dragoon Guards. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Dragoon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Dragoon" is used about 36 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.44% | 34 | 59,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.56% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 36 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dragoon": dragoon bird ♦ dragoon smth. into smb.. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "dragoon": she-dragoon. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "dragoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | detyroj (bind, bully, coerce, compel, constrain, enforce, entail, force, have, haze, impel, keep, make, move, obligate, oblige, outface, pin down, press, push, rack, screw, strong arm, tie), shtyp me kalorësi, ndjek me kalorësi, kalorës (cavalier, cavalryman, equestrian, galloper, horse, horseman, knight, rider, sowar, trooper). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | جندي في سلاح الفرسان. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | вид гълъб, жесток човек (savage, tiger, turk), драгун. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dragoun. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | سواره نظام راهدایت کردن , سواره نظام (Cavalry, Horse, Horseman, Yeomanry), بزورشکنجه بکاری واداشتن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rakuuna (estragon, tarragon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dragon (dragon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | dragoner. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ιππέασ (equestrian, horseman, hussar, trooper), δραγόνοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לכפות (coerce, compel, enforce, force, obsess, pinion), ל"כריח (compel, constrain, force, obligate, oblige). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | dragonyos, katonai megszállással sanyargat, kényszerít (coerce, compel, constrain, force, oblige, to apply the screws, to coerce, to compel, to concuss, to constrain, to cow, to fag, to force sy into doing sg, to hijack, to necessitate, to oblige, to put the screws on, to will, to will sy into doing sg). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dragone (dragon). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 竜騎兵 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | りゅうきへい. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sidoor cabbil (cavalryman, trooper), dragoon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | agoondray dragão (draco, dragon), enviar expedição punitiva. (various references) dragon, trimite o expediţie, hãrţui (harass, infest, squabble, tease, worry, wrangle). (various references) драгун. (various references) dragon. (various references) dragón (dragon, snapdragon), tiranizar (bully, domineer, ride, tyrannize), perseguir (chase, chivvy, dog, follow, follow up, get after, go after, gun for, harass, haunt, hound, Hunt, hunt down, importune, lock on, obsess, persecute, prosecute, pursue, set after, trace, tracking), intimidar de (daunt). (various references) dragon (tarragon). (various references) การปราบปรามโ"ยใช้กำลังทหาร, ทหารม้า (cavalry, cavalryman). (various references) zulmetmek (bully, tyrannize, tyrannize over), zorla yaptırmak (bludgeon, drag in, enforce, extort, force smb.'s hand, grind out), işkence yapmak, eziyet etmek (afflict, agonize, excruciate, grind down, grind out, Harry, lead smb. a dance, maltreat, oppress, pain, persecute, rack, torment, torture, tyrannize, tyrannize over, wrong), ağır süvari. (various references) нестримна людина, примушувати силою, посилати каральну експедицію, драгун. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| French | 1500-Modern | dragon. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "dragoon": dragooned, dragooning, dragoons. (additional references) | |
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"Dragoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brigoon, Darboux, dariyoun, dracon, Draegebo, Dragados, Dragahn, drago, dragoe, dragone, dragony, dragor, dragoun, Drakon, draon, dravon, dregon, Traggoon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: gadroon. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-n-o-o-r" | |
-1 letter: dragon, drongo. | |
-2 letters: adorn, argon, donga, donor, gonad, grand, groan, orang, organ, radon, rondo. | |
-3 letters: agon, dago, dang, darn, dona, dong, door, drag, gnar, goad, good, goon, grad, gran, nard, odor, orad, ordo, rand, rang, road, roan, rood. | |
-4 letters: ado, ago, and, dag, dog, don, dor, gad, gan, gar, goa, god, goo, gor, nag. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-n-o-o-r" | |
+1 letter: dragoons, gadroons, ondogram, rigadoon. | |
+2 letters: dragooned, gadrooned, goosander, grandioso, ondograms, rigadoons. | |
+3 letters: derogation, dragooning, gadrooning, goosanders, monogramed, orangewood. | |
+4 letters: aboveground, androgynous, boomeranged, derogations, gadroonings, godforsaken, monogrammed, monographed, motorcading, orangewoods, overgoading, overloading, roadholding, woodcarving. | |
+5 letters: carbonadoing, coordinating, gonadotropic, gonadotropin, granodiorite, outorganized, proofreading, roadblocking, roadholdings, snowboarding, woodcarvings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 72 61 67 6F 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .-. .- --. --- --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01110010 01100001 01100111 01101111 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D r a g o o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0072 0061 0067 006F 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)38846773818180 |
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