/ˈdɹɔɪd/
OriginClipping 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.
- 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 star”
““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.”
Formsdroids(plural) · 'droid(alternative)