droid
/dɹɔɪ̯d/
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Australia/dɹoɪ̯d/
droid noun: a robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
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Noun
droid (plural droids)
- A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
- 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.1952 July, Mari Wolf, “Robots of the World! Arise!”, in James L. Quinn, editor, If (Project Gutenberg; Ebook #31611), volume 1, number 3, Kingston, N.Y.: Quinn Pub. Co., published 12 March 2010...
- “These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” [Obi-Wan] Kenobi told him pleasantly.1976, George Lucas, [Alan Dean Foster], Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, New York, N.Y.: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 77
- A person having the qualities of an android; one with few or no emotions or little personality, or who acts in an unthinking manner; a robot.
- "Okay, Allie, I didn't want to have to do this, but if you insist on behaving like an astromech droid, you leave me no choice." Rory's an accountant and a Star Wars nerd.2006, Shane Bolks, Reality TV Bites: […], New York, N.Y.: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 16
droid meaning in Tamil
droid in Tamil
- மனித எந்திரம்
Examples of droid in a sentence
- The bartender was a droid, as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories. […] Droids couldn't be bribed, she thought with some regret.1995, J. D. Robb [pseudonym; Nora Roberts], chapter 3, in Glory in Death, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 39:
- Do droids have capacities for mental states and language?2005, Robert Arp, “‘If Droids Could Think …’: Droids as Slaves and Persons”, in Kevin S. Decker, Jason T. Eberl, editors, Star Wars and...
- The trouble with droids is that they can't think, Obi-Wan told himself as he hacked his way through the battle droids that still clogged the sinkhole tunnel city on Utapau.2005, Patricia C[ollins] Wrede, Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith […], New York, N.Y.: Scholastic, →ISBN, page 142:
- I'll have a bunch of droid servants and never have to get my hands dirty again.2014, S. E. Gilchrist, chapter 1, in When Stars Collide, Sydney, N.S.W.: Escape Publishing, →ISBN:
Forms of droid
| plural | droids |
|---|---|
| alternative form (archaic) | 'droid |
Origin of droid
Clipping of android (“robot designed to look and act like a human being”). Coined by the American science fiction author Mari Wolf (born 1926) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977): see the quotations.
Words formed from droid
- George Droid
- marketroid
- robodroid
- sexdroid
Words that rhyme with droid
Questions about droid
- What does droid mean?
- Droid means a robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
- What is droid in Tamil?
- Droid in Tamil is மனித எந்திரம். See Droid meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use droid in a sentence?
- The bartender was a droid, as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories. […] Droids couldn't be bribed, she thought with some regret.
- What part of speech is droid?
- Droid is a noun.
- How do you pronounce droid?
- Droid is pronounced /dɹɔɪ̯d/ (UK).
- What is the plural of droid?
- The plural of droid is droids.
Words near droid in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: droid (page history and authors); droid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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