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Definition of dragoon noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

dragoon

noun
 
/drəˈɡuːn/
 
/drəˈɡuːn/
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  1. a soldier in the past who rode a horse and carried a gunTopics War and conflictc2
    Word Originearly 17th cent. (denoting ‘a kind of carbine ’or‘ musket, thought of as breathing fire’): from French dragon ‘dragon’.
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