dragon
/ˈdɹæɡən/ sustantivo B1En español: dragón, guiverno
- In European mythologies, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a lizard-like body, often a monster with fiery breath.
- In Eastern Asian mythologies, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent.
- Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona.
- A Komodo dragon.
- A sea dragon.
- The constellation Draco.
- A fierce and unpleasant woman. · She’s a bit of a dragon.
- The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China. · Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon.
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“Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.
To wait at Monte Cristo for the purpose of watching like a dragon over the almost incalculable riches that had thus fallen into his possession satisfied not the cravings of his heart, which yearned to return to dwell among mankind, and to assume the rank, power, and influence which are always accorded to wealth—that first and greatest of all the forces within the grasp of man.
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