drake
pronunciation
How to pronounce drake in British English:
UK [dreɪk]
How to pronounce drake in American English:
US [drek]
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- Noun:
- adult male of a wild or domestic duck
Word Origin
- drake
- drake: English has two words drake, but the older, ‘dragon’ [OE] (which comes via prehistoric West Germanic *drako from Latin dracō, source of English dragon), has now more or less disappeared from general use (it is still employed for a sort of fishing fly). Drake ‘male duck’ [13] probably goes back to (another) prehistoric West Germanic *drako, preserved also in the second element of German enterich ‘male duck’.=> dragon
- drake (n.1)
- "male duck," c. 1300, unrecorded in Old English but may have existed then, from West Germanic *drako (cognates: Low German drake, second element of Old High German anutrehho, dialectal German Drache).
- drake (n.2)
- archaic for "dragon," from Old English draca "dragon, sea monster, huge serpent," from Proto-Germanic *drako (cognates: Middle Dutch and Old Frisian drake, Dutch draak, Old High German trahho, German drache), an early borrowing from Latin draco (see dragon).
Antonym
Example
- 1. Do you go near the drake hotel ?
- 2. Nevertheless when drake took up his post the agency was undergoing an identity crisis .
- 3. They already seemed to know about drake binney and wiebe-perhaps from the inspector general 's report .
- 4. The anatomy of the genital organs of drake and gander .
- 5. Veronica drake is an international relationship coach and intuitive .