English Dictionary
Definition of “android”
android (ˈændrɔɪd
)
Definitions
noun
- (in science fiction) a robot resembling a human being
adjective
- resembling a human being
Word Origin
C18: from Late Greek androeidēs manlike; see andro-, -oid
Android (ˈændrɔɪd)
Definitions
noun
- ®a software package for smartphones, including many application programs
- a smartphone that uses this software
Usage examples
The positronic brain demands the replacement of the body and offers to pay any reasonable fee for an android body as that replacement.
Asimov, Isaac, The Complete Stories Volume 2 (1995)As Adams's paranoid android Marvin would say, `Hateful, isn't it?
New Scientist (1999)The joke in those circles is that Rice is, in fact, a pre-programmed android.
Courier, Sunday Mail (2005)It tells the story of a boy android who longs to be human.
Sun, News of the World (2001)Was it not Hermes who visited upon the android Pandora, she of the mythical box of ills, the curse of a warped mind?
Hope, Murry, Essential Woman - her mystery, her power (1991)
