ALL meanings of dragoon
dra·goon
D d - noun dragoon soldier on horseback 1
- transitive verb dragoon force, pressurize 1
- noun dragoon (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop. 1
- noun dragoon a member of a military unit formerly composed of such cavalrymen, as in the British army. 1
- noun dragoon (formerly) a mounted infantryman armed with a short musket. 1
- verb with object dragoon to set dragoons or soldiers upon; persecute by armed force; oppress. 1
- verb with object dragoon to force by oppressive measures; coerce: The authorities dragooned the peasants into leaving their farms. 1
- noun Definition of dragoon in Technology (language) A distributed, concurrent, object-oriented Ada-based language developed in the Esprit DRAGON project by Colin Atkinson at Imperial College in 1989 (Now at University of Houston, Clear Lake). DRAGOON supports object-oriented programming for embeddable systems and is presently implemented as an Ada preprocessor. 1
- noun dragoon A member of any of several cavalry regiments in the British army. 1
- noun dragoon (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted. 0
- noun dragoon A carrier of a dragon musket. 0
- noun dragoon A variety of pigeon. 0
- verb dragoon To force someone into doing something; to coerce. 0
- countable noun dragoon A dragoon was a soldier in old European armies. Dragoons usually fought on horseback. 0
- verb dragoon If someone dragoons you into doing something that you do not want to do, they persuade you to do it even though you try hard not to agree. 0
- noun dragoon (originally) a mounted infantryman armed with a carbine 0
- noun dragoon a domestic fancy pigeon 0
- noun dragoon a type of cavalryman 0
- noun dragoon (pl; cap when part of a name) 0
- verb dragoon to coerce; force 0
- verb dragoon to persecute by military force 0
- noun dragoon a mounted soldier armed with a short musket (called a dragon), capable of fighting on horseback or on foot 0
- noun dragoon a heavily armed cavalryman 0
- noun dragoon a member of a Canadian armored cavalry regiment 0
- verb transitive dragoon to harass or persecute by dragoons 0
- verb transitive dragoon to force (someone) into doing something; coerce 0