Gargoyle vs Dragon - What's the difference?
gargoyle | dragon |
A carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters.
* 1906 , , The Trampling of the Lilies? , page 110
Any decorative carved grotesque figure on a building.
A fictional winged monster.
* 2005 , Mel Odom, The Secret Explodes? , page 200
(slang, pejorative) An ugly woman.
A legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.
# 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.
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# 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.
#* 1913 , , chapter XIII:
An animal of various species that resemble a dragon in appearance:
# (obsolete) A very large snake; a python.
# Any of various agamid lizards of the genera Draco'', ''Physignathus or .
# A Komodo dragon.
(astronomy, with definite article, often capitalized) The constellation Draco.
* 1605 , , Act I, Scene 2:
(pejorative) An unpleasant woman; a harridan.
(with definite article, often capitalized) The (historical) Chinese empire or the People's Republic of China.
(figuratively) Something very formidable or dangerous.
A luminous exhalation from marshy ground, seeming to move through the air like a winged serpent.
(military, historical) 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.
A variety of carrier pigeon.
(Webster 1913)
As nouns the difference between gargoyle and dragon
is that gargoyle is a carved grotesque figure on a spout which conveys water away from the gutters while dragon is a legendary serpentine or reptilian creature.As a proper noun Dragon is
the Devil.gargoyle
English
(wikipedia gargoyle)Noun
(en noun)- From between set teeth came now a flow of oaths and imprecations as steady as the flow of water from the gargoyle overhead.
- Almost immediately one of the gargoyles' swept down from the sky and attacked him. The ' gargoyle' s momentum drove them both over the side.
Synonyms
* (any decorative carved grotesque figure) grotesque, hunky punk * (ugly woman) crone, hagDerived terms
*gargoylishdragon
English
(Dragon)Noun
(en noun)- But as every well-brought-up prince was expected to kill a dragon', and rescue a princess, the ' dragons grew fewer and fewer till it was often quite hard for a princess to find a dragon to be rescued from.
- These tapestries were magnificently figured with golden dragons'; and as the serpentine bodies gleamed and shimmered in the increasing radiance, each ' dragon , I thought, intertwined its glittering coils more closely with those of another.
- My father compounded with my mother vnder the Dragons taile, and my nativity was vnder Vrsa Maior .
- She’s a bit of a dragon .
- Napoleon already warned of the awakening of the Dragon .
- (Fairholt)