• IPA: /dɹəˈɡuːn/

dragoon (plural dragoons)

1. (military) A horse soldier; a cavalryman, who uses a horse for mobility, but fights dismounted.
   • 1881, W. S. Gilbert, Patience

     If you want a receipt for that popular mystery,
     Known to the world as a Heavy Dragoon -
     Take all the remarkable people in history,
     Rattle them off to a popular tune!

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     His forefathers had been, as a rule, professional men—physicians and lawyers; his grandfather died under the walls of Chapultepec Castle while twisting a tourniquet for a cursing dragoon; an uncle remained indefinitely at Malvern Hill; […].

2. A carrier of a dragon musket.
3. A variety of pigeon.

• French: dragon
• German: Dragoner
• Italian: dragone
• Portuguese: dragão
• Russian: драгу́н
• Spanish: dragón

• French: dragon, Dragon, pigeon dragon, pigeon Dragon, pigeon bec anglais
• German: Dragonertaube, Dragoner-Taube, Dragoner, Drachentaube, Drachen-Taube, Dragoner-Bagdette

dragoon (dragoons, present participle dragooning; past and past participle dragooned)

1. (transitive) To force (someone) into doing something; to coerce.

   Synonyms: compel

2. (transitive) To surrender (a person) to the fury of soldiers.

• dragooner

• Spanish: presionar