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# dragoon

«dragoon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a soldier who rode a horse and sometimes fought on foot** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (dragoon, dragoons)

### meaning for a pupil

(old use) a soldier who rode a horse and sometimes fought on foot [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragoon/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in old stories a group of noisy soldiers marching or riding somewhere

### examples

- The dragoons rode into the town at dawn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragoon/#x1)
- A troop of dragoons marched past the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragoon/#x2)
- The king sent a dozen dragoons to guard the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragoon/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; a count of dragoons is just a count of soldiers

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dragoon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dragoon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.