Pendragon is an English word with synonyms like headman or chieftain. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Pendragon in a sentence
Pendragon meaning
Also capitalized as Pendragon: a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs: chief war leader, chieftain, dictator, despot or king.
Using Pendragon
- The main meaning on this page is: Also capitalized as Pendragon: a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs: chief war leader, chieftain, dictator, despot or king.
- Useful related words include: headman, tribal chief, chieftain.
- In the example corpus, pendragon often appears in combinations such as: uther pendragon, for pendragon, pendragon and.
Context around Pendragon
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 7 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Pendragon
- In this selection, "pendragon" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, uther, arthur, know, daily, eddie and told stand out and add context to how "pendragon" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include aka jonathan pendragon class of and as the pendragon series by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "pendragon" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with pendragon
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Pendragon loosely means Chief, or Leader or General. (8 words)
Early on, Arthur pronounces himself the Son of Uther Pendragon. (10 words)
Senior druid King Arthur Pendragon is running as a parliamentary candidate for Salisbury, Wiltshire. (14 words)
But senior druid King Arthur Pendragon told it was his 'right' to 'be as close as is legally possible' to Stonehenge to watch the solstice - despite a statement published on the English Heritage website urging people not to flout the rules. (41 words)
Iain De Caestecker's as Arthur, the illegitimate son of King Uther Pendragon (Eddie Marsan), who is banished from Britain but returns years later when his father's kingdom comes under threat. (32 words)
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Example sentences (16)
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Iain De Caestecker's as Arthur, the illegitimate son of King Uther Pendragon (Eddie Marsan), who is banished from Britain but returns years later when his father's kingdom comes under threat.
Speaking about the charity at the event, the PM added: 'Many of you will know Pendragon in particular.
Senior druid King Arthur Pendragon is running as a parliamentary candidate for Salisbury, Wiltshire.
But senior druid King Arthur Pendragon told it was his 'right' to 'be as close as is legally possible' to Stonehenge to watch the solstice - despite a statement published on the English Heritage website urging people not to flout the rules.
Early on, Arthur pronounces himself the Son of Uther Pendragon.
Played by Sebastian Armesto, King Uther Pendragon is the current reigning monarch of Britain.
His interest in mythology was fueled by reading books such as the Pendragon series by D.J. Machale and the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan, when he was younger.
Pendragon loosely means Chief, or Leader or General.
A manuscript found in Bath from the 1420s simply records a "Merlyn" as having helped Uther Pendragon with his "sotelness" or subtleness, presumably but not necessarily magic.
Claude Yarbrough (aka Jonathan Pendragon ), class of '76, is one of the most influential magicians of the 20th and 21st centuries.
In Robert de Boron 's Merlin he is called simply Pendragon and his younger brother is named Uter, which he changes to Uterpendragon after the death of the elder sibling.
It has been suggested that the Welsh legendary name Pendragon came from the word "head of the dragons", the name of the commander of the Sarmatians situated in sub-Roman Ribchester.
The king sent Merlin, Uther Pendragon (Arthur's father), and 15,000 knights, to remove it from Ireland, where it had been constructed on Mount Killaraus by the Giants.
The poem relates that Mabon fab Mydron (a misspelling of Modron) is one of Arthur's followers, and is described as a "servant to Uther Pendragon ".
Wace usually only refers to li roi ("the king") without naming him, and someone has taken an early mention of Uther's epithet Pendragon as the name of his brother.
Common combinations with pendragon
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- uther pendragon 6×
- for pendragon 2×
- pendragon and 2×
- arthur pendragon 2×
- pendragon is 2×