Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

droid

/dɹɔɪ̯d/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.23 in modern English

Syllables: droid
IPA: /dɹɔɪ̯d/

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).

noun

A person having the qualities of an android; one with few or no emotions or little personality, or who acts in an unthinking manner; a robot.

American usage; Derogatory

Example Sentences

"It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're stopping robots in the streets—household Robs, commercial Droids, all of them. They just look at them, and then the others quit work and start off with them."
"“These aren’t the ’droids you’re looking for,” [Obi-Wan] Kenobi told him pleasantly."
"The bartender was a droid, as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories. […] Droids couldn't be bribed, she thought with some regret. And threats had to be both clever and logical."
"Do droids have capacities for mental states and language? There are plenty of examples of droids apparently engaged in behaviors expressive of mental states and language. One glaring example is the torturing of a droid at Jabba the Hutt's palace in Return of the Jedi. […] (Interestingly enough, one also gets the sense that the droid administering the torture is enjoying what he's doing.)"
"The trouble with droids is that they can't think, Obi-Wan told himself as he hacked his way through the battle droids that still clogged the sinkhole tunnel city on Utapau. An army made up of living beings would have seen how badly outnumbered they were, and given up. The droids just kept on fighting."
"I'm close to finding those maps. I know it! Then six more missions and I'll have enough creds to set myself up in style on some snug and safe planet. I'll have a bunch of droid servants and never have to get my hands dirty again."

Etymology

Clipping of android (“robot designed to look and act like a human being”). Coined by the American science fiction author Mari Wolf (born 1926) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977): see the quotations.

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /dɹɔɪ̯d/
British English: /dɹɔɪ̯d/

Usage

American usage
Derogatory

Inflected Forms

droids (plural) 'droid (alternative, archaic)

Derived Forms

marketroid robodroid sexdroid

Phrases

George Droid

Frequently Paired Words

clanker

Rhymes With

avoid destroyed enjoyed employed lloyd deployed void annoyed unemployed boyd floyd freud

Questions

How do you pronounce droid?: The recorded pronunciation is /dɹɔɪ̯d/.
What does droid mean?: A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
Where does droid come from?: Clipping of android (“robot designed to look and act like a human being”). Coined by the American science fiction author Mari Wolf (born 1926) in the story “Robots of the World! Arise!” (1952), and popularized by the film Star Wars (later retitled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope, 1977): see the quotations.

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