Get to know Drow better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Drow in a sentence
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Drow meaning
- A member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.
- “hidden people” (Faroese huldufólk, Norwegian huldrefolk), subterraneans (Norwegian underjordiske, Swedish underjordiska, Gutnish di sma undar jordi), fairies, “troll-folk”, and thereof (Swedish oknytt)
Using Drow
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll. | “hidden people” (Faroese huldufólk, Norwegian huldrefolk), subterraneans (Norwegian underjordiske, Swedish underjordiska, Gutnish di sma undar jordi), fairies, “troll-folk”, and thereof (Swedish oknytt) | A member of a race of folkloric beings from Orkney and Shetland; cognate to the Scandinavian troll.
- In the example corpus, drow often appears in combinations such as: the drow, drow are, drow have.
Context around Drow
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Drow
- In this selection, "drow" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, describes, deep, sworn, language, nomenclature and house stand out and add context to how "drow" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include against the drow the threat and and a drow and share. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "drow" sits close to words such as abalone, abomination and accountancy, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with drow
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
According to The Complete Book of Elves, drow are not welcome in Evermeet and are turned away. (17 words)
Half-drow are the result of crossbreeding between another race and a drow, and share characteristics of both. (18 words)
Social station is the most important thing in drow society, making ascension to greater power a drow's ultimate goal. (20 words)
The characters may freely enter the city and spend time there, unless they attempt to organize any escaped slave groups for open warfare against the drow; the threat of a slave uprising will bring the chaotic drow into full cooperation. (40 words)
The eighth chapter briefly describes "Drow Language", while the ninth chapter goes into "Drow Nomenclature" by providing example female and male given names and drow house names, and the tenth chapter provides "A Selected Glossary of Deep Drow". (38 words)
The vast majority of Drow Elves both male and female in the original campaign setting of Greyhawk have no authority or ranking at all and live an idle and degenerate life in the great city of the Drow. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
The eighth chapter briefly describes "Drow Language", while the ninth chapter goes into "Drow Nomenclature" by providing example female and male given names and drow house names, and the tenth chapter provides "A Selected Glossary of Deep Drow".
The Drow subraces are purely for dialogue options, with the Lolth-Sworn Drow having more evil choices compared to the Seldarine Drow.
The Drow followers of Eilistraee are the largest group of good Drow, as Eilistraee is the patron goddess of all Drow that have a good alignment.
An extensive overview of the drow power structure is given for the purpose of creating any number of mini-campaigns or adventures taking place inside the drow capital.
As the party travels, signs of the drow are noted all around; the drow clearly freely pass through these subterranean areas, even though they are hated and feared by the other local intelligent races.
Drow constantly war with other underground neighbors such as dwarves and dark gnomes (svirfneblin), and keep slaves of all types - including allies who fail to live up to drow expectations.
Drow have a strong affinity for arachnids, as most worship the spider goddess Lolth, and spiders dwell freely among drow communities.
Drow infravision is described as so intense that their eyes actually radiate heat; therefore, a character viewing a drow through infravision would see two burning eyes atop a normally glowing torso.
Half-drow are the result of crossbreeding between another race and a drow, and share characteristics of both.
Most creatures who live on the surface have never met a drow, but those who have seen a drow city report nightmarish buildings constructed of stone and minerals, carved into weird, fantastic shapes.
Over time, the remaining elves turned into drow by powerful magic, and at this time any elf who is evil enough can spontaneously turn into a drow.
Social station is the most important thing in drow society, making ascension to greater power a drow's ultimate goal.
The characters may freely enter the city and spend time there, unless they attempt to organize any escaped slave groups for open warfare against the drow; the threat of a slave uprising will bring the chaotic drow into full cooperation.
The drow and kuo-toa trade with each other openly, but the kuo-toa hate and fear the drow, resulting in frequent skirmishes between the two peoples.
The vast majority of Drow Elves both male and female in the original campaign setting of Greyhawk have no authority or ranking at all and live an idle and degenerate life in the great city of the Drow.
Depending on whether you sided with the Drow Minthara or not, this area could hold enemy goblins that will attack before you even reach the moon puzzle.
Likely promised greater authority and parasitic powers, large numbers of drow have turned their backs on Lolth in favor of an Illithid future.
We'll be doing some announcements on those shortly dealing with some very powerful Drow deities that may or may not be appearing in some future modules.
If you go in through the Mountain Pass, you'll meet the Drow Drider and his agents from Moonrise Towers, and while you're on the road the Harpers ambush the whole group.
According to The Complete Book of Elves, drow are not welcome in Evermeet and are turned away.
Common combinations with drow
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the drow 26×
- drow are 8×
- drow have 6×
- into drow 4×
- all drow 3×
- drow and 3×
- drow society 3×
- of drow 3×
- drow is 3×
- drow in 3×