droid

See also: 'droid

English

Alternative forms

• 'droid

Etymology

1952. From android via aphaeresis. Coined by American science fiction author Mari Wolf, and popularised by the film Star Wars (1977).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɹɔɪd/
• Rhymes: -ɔɪd

Noun

droid (plural droids)

1. A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.
   • 1952 July, Wolf, Mari, “Robots of the World! Arise!”, in If‎^[1], volume 1, number 3, page 76:

     It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them.

   • 1976, George Lucas, Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, New York: Ballantine Books, p 77:

     “These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” Kenobi told him pleasantly.

   • 1995, J. D. Robb, Glory in Death, page 39:

     The bartender was a droid, as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories.

Quotations

• For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:droid.

References

• “droid” in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, page 38.
• droid n. at the OED Science Fiction Citations Project

Anagrams

• dorid

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɔi̯d/

Verb

droid

1. Soft mutation of troid.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
troid	droid	nhroid	throid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.