{"id":34907,"date":"2018-06-10T20:37:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-10T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=34907"},"modified":"2018-06-10T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T20:37:28","slug":"english-what-does-dragoon-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-dragoon-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English: what does dragoon mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, so many word discoveries happen. The tutor mentions <em>dragoon<\/em>.<\/h1>\n<div style=\"background-color:floralwhite;font-size:130%;padding:16px;white-space:pre-wrap\">\n<div style=\"color:dimgray\"><span style=\"font-size:130%\"><em>dragoon<\/em> (1. noun:military):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>soldier on horseback; cavalry soldier.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:crimson\"><span style=\"font-size:130%\"><em>dragoon<\/em> (2. verb):<\/span><\/p>\n<p>to cause someone to do something they would rather not, by manipulation or intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been known to <em>dragoon<\/em> my kids to practice the piano.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space:pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine, et al (editors). <em>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/em>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, so many word discoveries happen. The tutor mentions dragoon. dragoon (1. noun:military): soldier on horseback; cavalry soldier. dragoon (2. verb): to cause someone to do something they would rather not, by manipulation or intimidation. I&#8217;ve been known to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-dragoon-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: what does dragoon mean?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34907"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34962,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34907\/revisions\/34962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}