dragon vs monster

dragon

noun
  • Something very formidable or dangerous. 

  • In Western mythology, a gigantic beast, typically reptilian with leathery bat-like wings, lion-like claws, scaly skin and a serpent-like body, often a monster with fiery breath. 

  • A background process similar to a daemon. 

  • A Komodo dragon. 

  • The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China. 

  • A transvestite man, or more broadly a male-to-female transgender person. 

  • A type of playing-tile (red dragon, green dragon, white dragon) in the game of mahjong. 

  • In Eastern mythology, a large, snake-like monster with the eyes of a hare, the horns of a stag and the claws of a tiger, usually beneficent. 

  • Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco, Physignathus or Pogona. 

  • A fierce and unpleasant woman; a harridan. 

  • A variety of carrier pigeon. 

  • A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature. 

  • A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle. 

  • The constellation Draco. 

  • A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent. 

monster

noun
  • A terrifying and dangerous creature. 

  • A bizarre or whimsical creature. 

  • A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal. 

  • Something unusually large. 

  • A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain. 

  • A badly behaved child, a brat. 

  • A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games. 

verb
  • To harass. 

  • To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise. 

  • To behave as a monster to; to terrorise. 

  • To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants. 

adj
  • Great; very good; excellent. 

  • Very large; worthy of a monster. 

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