Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fire-breathing dragon of Germanic mythology.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A fiery dragon or serpent.
- n. A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus.
- n. A kind of firework.
- n. A worker at a furnace or fire: an allusive use.
Wiktionary
- n. A fire-breathing dragon
- n. A fiery meteor, an ignis fatuus, a rocket
- n. A kind of firework
- n. A worker at a furnace or fire (an allusive use)
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A fiery dragon.
- n. A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket.
- n. A worker at a furnace or fire.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a creature of Teutonic mythology; usually represented as breathing fire and having a reptilian body and sometimes wings
Etymologies
- From Old English fȳrdraca ("fire-spewing dragon"), equivalent of fire + drake. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English firdrake, from Old English fȳrdraca : fȳr, fire; see fire + draca, dragon; see drake2. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“That it was not a firedrake was the only thing any of Gold’s companions knew as fact.”
“Then a "firedrake," guarding an immense hoard of treasure (as in most of the old dragon stories), begins to ravage the land.”
“The Shadowleague sends out a Veldan her firedrake Kazairl to find the heart of Myrial.”
“Two warriors and their firedrake companion seek him in order to save the world before it is too late.”
“Visibility improved to where the firedrake could see his host.”
“It was decorated with serpents, identifying it as a weapon of a firedrake warrior.”
“The firedrake stared into the cold, dead eyes of his host and shook his head.”
“Pushing a wandering firedrake back into the bunch, Gwen muttered, What do we do now?”
“The item in hand, the firedrake dismissed his servant.”
“For that matter, any stranger could very well turn out to be another firedrake or some other sinister terror.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘firedrake’.
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Fire when ready
Words and phrases containing fire.
fire ant, crossfire, fire and brimstone, spitfire, firepower, fireflower, firetower, firetrap, brushfire, fireworks, fire storm, fight fire with fire and 84 more...
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Anglo-Saxon/Old English
Anglo-Saxon rootwords
mote, huru, byspel, elfshine, infaru, snotor, dern, upspring, meed, lof, queem, hof and 83 more...
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Rakes
rake, rakes, brakes, hale, as thin as a rake, rakehell, horserake, star-wheel rake, hand-rake, rake helly, A child sitting i..., sulky rake and 47 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (F)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
faery, fairy cross, fairy ring, falcon, fare-thee-well, farewell-summer, farthing, faun, fawn, felicitous, felicity, fencing and 109 more...
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the road
glaucoma, tarpaulin, flowstone, flue, rimstone, alabaster, gully, shoring, grike, riprap, windfall, transom and 120 more...
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Benandanti
All things Light
aureole, aura, aurora borealis, aglow, lucent, lambent, radiant, bright, burn, fire, solstice, brazier and 94 more...
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botello360's list
ruminate, steel, bifurcation, arrivederci, portage, tactile, ruminant, rift, anecdotage, diacritic, cud, hull and 399 more...
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persnickety parlance
behoove, ebullient, insouciant, insipient, froth, quandary, quixotic, tendril, maktub, furrow, furl, anastrophe and 1076 more...
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"A List of His MAJESTY's Ships and Ve...
Boston: Re-Printed and Sold at J. Draper's Printing-Office in Newbury-Street. (Price Sixteen Pence single.)
See the companion list, A LIST of the Men of War the French have left," 174...apollo, deptford, portsmouth, princess royal, scarborough, sutherland, william and mary, mary, fubbs, dublin, charlotte, catherine and 302 more...
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.fire
ash, burn, cinder, cinerary, ember, tinder, kindled, flint, brimstone, sulphur, saltpetre, paraffin and 5 more...
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The Road
Cormac McCarthy
glaucoma, tarpaulin, ford, ratchet, slutlamp, mote, shoring, gryke, riprap, transom, manila, cleat and 68 more...
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Dragon Words
dragonné, dragon boat, green dragon, snapdragon, tarasque, luckdragon, manticore, sirrush, superb-dragon, wyrm, vishap, dragoness and 33 more...
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Good words
Words that sound good. Words that have a motion. Words that are a certain color. Words that strike me.
polyglot, twee, ugsome, fairylight, dazzle, lovely, harlot, craggy, belladonna, eucharist, astute, kindle and 22 more...
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Cormac McCarthy - The Road
stoven, bollard, travois, bindle, gimballed, excelsior, amidships, tidewrack, bracken, transom, harrowtrough, envacuuming and 34 more...
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Western European mythical creatures a...
barbegazi, xorguinae, wichtlein, poltergeist, ondine, undine, sylph, salamander, reaper, imp, guivre, gargoyle and 24 more...
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Baby, You're a Firework
cherry bomb, whizbang, cannon cracker, ladyfinger, banger, cracker, ashcan, gerb, crow scarer, squib, squib-cracker, fizgig and 27 more...
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