Dragon
Dragon (Latin draco , ancient Greek drákōn "snake", from dérkesthai "see") stands for:
- Dragon (mythology) , lizard-like, winged mythical creature
- Dragon from Chinese mythology, see Long (mythology)
- Dragon ( heraldic animal) , motif in heraldry
- Dragon (constellation) of the northern sky
- Drache (locomotive) , built by Henschel in Kassel in 1848
- Focke-Achgelis Fa 223 , nickname Drache , one of the first helicopters
- Zmaj (ship, 1929) , later dragon , Yugoslavian marine tender
Dragon is the family name of the following people:
- Heinz Drache (actor) (1923–2002), German actor and radio play speaker
- Heinz Drache (painter) (1929–1989), German painter and graphic artist
- Otto Drache (1840–1917), German violinist and conductor
Draché stands for:
- Draché , commune in the Indre-et-Loire department, France
The dragon stands for:
- The dragon (Giambattista Basile) , fairy tales from his fairy tale collection Pentamerone (1634)
- Der Drache (magazine) , satirical magazine from Leipzig (1919–1925)
- The dragon (drama) , fairy tale in parabolic form by Yevgeny Lwowitsch Schwarz (1943)
Dragon stands for:
- Kites , play equipment that rises on a string in the wind
- Hang glider , aircraft
- Dragons (boat class) , class of sailing boats
- Dragons , class of Viking boats , see Viking ship #Langschiff
- Dragon variant , chess defense
- Dragon square , geometric figure
See also:
- List of all Wikipedia articles whose title begins with dragon
- List of all Wikipedia articles with a title containing Dragon
- Kite , lizard genus Draco
- Drach (disambiguation)
- Dragon (disambiguation)
Wiktionary: Dragon - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
