Oh my word Dragon, Dragoon

Is dragon a mythical animal?

Has Internet dragooned us into it?

Dragon is a mythical animal. Dragon is a legendary creature depicted as spewing fire among others. Dragon has the features of a snake or serpentine, and lizard (reptilian features) but bigger in size. Dragon featured in the myths of Greek, Middle Eastern and East Asian cultures. But the English word dragon is derived from the Greek word drakon.

Dragon is a mythical monster, a gigantic reptile with a long tail, sharp claws, scaly skin, and often with wings. It could also be a type of lizard like the Komodo dragon or the flying lizard. Figuratively, dragon refers to a fiercely vigilant, or intractable person. In Vedic religion there is a reference to the dragon. Vritra or Vrtra was a dragon, or the naga who was a personification of drought who lost to the rain-god Indra in a battle.

Indra is the chief deity and the god of war and rain who had separated the heavens and the earth by defeating Vrtra who is a snake-dragon representation of chaos and obstacles. In Chinese mythology and folklore, dragons have animal-like forms such as turtles, fish, snake with four legs, and imaginary creatures.

Chinese dragons traditionally symbolize potent powers, strength and good luck. It is an auspicious symbol. The belief is it has control over water, rainfall, hurricanes, and floods. It was also symbolized as the imperial power and strength of Chinese emperors.

In the Life of Apollonius, the Athenian author Philostratus narrates the story of Apollonius of Tyana, a charismatic teacher and miracle worker. It also contains a description of India infested with dragons, but this allusion does not correspond with modern Indian belief.

Dragoon means force, drive, compel, bully, intimidate, constrain, coerce someone to do something (The family relentlessly dragooned the housemaid to work from morning to late night until she collapsed and hospitalized), impel, strong-arm (tactics), browbeat. Dragoon is a verb. Derivatives of dragoon are: He dragoons colleagues to do extra work every day.

He is dragooning his colleagues, and they feel he should be taught a lesson: one day. He dragooned for a while then he was replaced: shunted out to another city. He was dragooning for petty an silly matters but was caught on CCTV camera, and was dragooned by his superior.

He has dragooned in the office but not anymore. He would have dragooned but his authority was clipped. Dragoon as noun refers to a member of cavalry regiments in the British army. Dragoon is a cavalryman or a mounted soldier.