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- Dictionarydragoon/drəˈɡuːn/
noun
- 1. a member of any of several cavalry regiments in the British army.
verb
- 1. coerce (someone) into doing something: "she had been dragooned into helping with the housework"
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Mounted Russian dragoon armed with an infantry long gun, c. 1710. Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot. From the early 17th century onward, dragoons were increasingly also employed as conventional cavalry and trained for combat with swords and firearms from horseback.
: to force into submission or compliance especially by violent measures. Did you know? A dragoon was a mounted European infantryman of the 17th and 18th centuries armed with a firearm called by the same name.
DRAGOON definition: 1. in the past, a soldier who rode on a horse and carried a gun 2. in the past, a soldier who rode…. Learn more.
DRAGOON | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary. Meaning of dragoon in English. dragoon. noun [ C ] us/drəˈɡuːn/uk/drəˈɡuːn/ Add to word listAdd to word list. in the past, a soldier who rode on a horse and carried a gun. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Causing somebody to act. arm-twisting. bludgeon.
Dragoons were named for one of the weapons they frequently carried, powerful muskets said to "breathe fire," known as dragons. European armies commonly included dragoon regiments from the late 17th century until the early 20th century, and dragoons also fought in the Revolutionary War.
noun. (especially formerly) a European cavalryman of a heavily armed troop. a member of a military unit formerly composed of such cavalrymen, as in the British army. (formerly) a mounted infantryman armed with a short musket.
dragoon. (drəguːn ) Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense, 3rd person singular present tense dragoons , present participle dragooning , past tense, past participle dragooned. 1. countable noun. A dragoon was a soldier in old European armies. Dragoons usually fought on horseback.
