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archaic
: a huge serpent
2
: a mythical animal usually represented as a monstrous winged and scaly serpent or saurian with a crested head and enormous claws
3
: a violent, combative, or very strict person
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Dragon
: draco
5
: something or someone formidable or baneful
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La Tanière du Dragon steals the show, featuring a towering dragon that lies in wait beneath Sleeping Beauty’s Castle.
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Zachary Laks, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2026
According to the Journal of Fish Biology, the hairy ghost pipefish — loosely related to seahorses, pipefishes and sea dragons — may be found in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia and Tonga.
—Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was always expected to live a quiet life — but she’s sent on an entirely different path when her mother, a general in the military, orders her to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become dragon riders, the elite of Navarre.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 May 2026
The story centers on Violet Sorrengail, whose plans for a quiet life are upended when her mother, a military general, orders her to join the brutal Basgiath War College and become one of several hundred candidates vying to become dragon riders.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026
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Zachary Laks, Travel + Leisure, 15 May 2026
According to the Journal of Fish Biology, the hairy ghost pipefish — loosely related to seahorses, pipefishes and sea dragons — may be found in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia and Tonga.
—Shyla Watson, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was always expected to live a quiet life — but she’s sent on an entirely different path when her mother, a general in the military, orders her to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become dragon riders, the elite of Navarre.
—Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 May 2026
The story centers on Violet Sorrengail, whose plans for a quiet life are upended when her mother, a military general, orders her to join the brutal Basgiath War College and become one of several hundred candidates vying to become dragon riders.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026
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“Dragon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dragon. Accessed 21 May. 2026.
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Etymology
Middle English dragon "dragon," from early French dragun (same meaning), from Latin dracon-, draco "serpent, dragon," from Greek drakōn "serpent" — related to rankle
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