dragoon

English

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɹəˈgun/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

dragoon (plural dragoons)

1. (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
   • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 2/1, The Younger Set^[1]:

     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 ; […] .

2. A carrier of a dragon musket.

Translations

horse soldier

• Bulgarian: драгун (bg) (dragun) m
• Czech: dragoun (cs) m
• Dutch: dragonder (nl)
• Esperanto: dragono (eo)
• Estonian: tragun (et)
• Finnish: rakuuna (fi)
• French: dragon (fr)
• German: Dragoner (de) m
• Hungarian: dragonyos (hu)

• Ido: dragono (io)
• Italian: dragone (it)
• Persian: اسوار (fa) (asvar)
• Portuguese: dragão (pt) m
• Romanian: dragon (ro)
• Russian: драгун (ru) (dragún) m
• Spanish: dragón (es) m
• Swedish: dragon (sv) c
• Volapük: (♂♀) drägun (vo), (♂) hidrägun (vo), (♀) jidrägun (vo), (obsolete) dragan (vo)

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• French: dragon

Verb

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

1. To force someone into doing something; to coerce.

Translations

to force someone into doing something; to coerce

• Bulgarian: принуждавам (bg) (prinuždavam)

Related terms

• dragooner

Anagrams

• gadroon