dragoon

Examples

• All

• The Dragoons rode into them.

  The Patriot (2000)

• But the Russians had their own counterpart to the Ulan's Hussars and dragoons of their adversaries, the Cossacks.

• The Dragoons from Great Britain did charge through here.

• "The first person I ran into was an English dragoon in full fig," I said.

  Fiction book (1992)

• I was in the Dragoons.

  The Homesman (2014)

• First witness for the prosecution: Private John Cock of the Royal Dragoon Guards.

  Academic text (1994)

• We got trapped between a patrol of dragoons and a patrol of lancers.

  The Alamo (1960)

• I am Captain Hobart, of Colonel Kirke's dragoons.

  Captain Blood (1935)

• Captain Banastre Tarleton came along with upwards of two hundred British dragoons.

  Fiction book (1994)

• During the battle, a squadron of dragoons charged forward to engage the enemy.

Synonyms

C

cavalryman

vsdragoon

2 8.1

A soldier who fights on horseback or in vehicles

is trained to fight on foot as well as on horseback

H

hussar

vsdragoon

• Archaic

1 9.9

A soldier who rides fast horses and wears fancy uniforms

was heavily armed and trained to fight on foot as well as on horseback

C

cavalry soldier

vsdragoon

6.0

A soldier who fights on horseback

is trained to fight on foot as well as on horseback

C

cavalrywoman

vsdragoon

8.1

A woman soldier who fights while riding horses or in armored vehicles

is trained to fight on foot as well as on horseback

Surface Forms

Etymology