Droid

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔɪd

Alternative forms

• 'droid

Origin

1976, from android via aphaeresis. Originally written with an apostrophe, as ’droid.

Full definition of droid

Noun

1. A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human.
• 1995, J. D. Robb, Glory in Death, page 39:The bartender was a droid, as most were, but she doubted this one had been programmed to listen cheerfully to customers' hard luck stories.

Anagrams

• dorid