droid

nounattested in dialogue

Canada//dɹɔɪ̯d//
Australia//dɹoɪ̯d//
India//ɖɾɔ(ː)jɖ//

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

noun

1
A robot, especially one made with some physical resemblance to a human (an android).
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.)
2
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.
"Okay, Allie, I didn't want to have to do this, but if you insist on behaving like an astromech droid, you leave me no choice." Rory's an accountant and a Star Wars nerd.

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.

Forms

plural: droids

Drivers · An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Illinois,…driveway · A short private road that leads to a house or garage.driving · That drives (a mechanism or process).

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

drone · A male hymenopteran (ant, bee, hornet, or wasp), whose sole…Drone · A surname.drool · To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food.

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