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Plural of dragon

regular plural

The plural of dragon is dragons.

Forms of dragon

Singulardragon /ˈdɹæɡən/
Pluraldragons
Countablecountable

Dragons in a sentence

  • But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon, and rescue a princess, the dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from.c. 1900, Edith Nesbit, The Last of the Dragons
  • These tapestries were magnificently figured with golden dragons; and as the serpentine bodies gleamed and shimmered in the increasing radiance, each dragon, I thought, intertwined its glittering coils more closely with those of another.1913, Sax Rohmer, chapter XIII, in The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
  • Chinese and Eastern mythologies describe dragons as benevolent.From the entry benevolent
  • He told fantastic stories of dragons and goblins.From the entry fantastic
  • Asian dragons, unlike their European counterparts, are anguinine in appearance.From the entry anguinine

Meaning of dragon

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun 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.
  3. noun A very large snake; a python.

Full definition of dragon

Questions about the plural of dragon

What is the plural of dragon?
The plural of dragon is dragons.
Is dragon countable?
Dragon is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dragon (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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