Etymograph

English

droid

Droid comes from English android ‘robot designed to look and act like a human…’.

  1. English1500–presentandroid‘robot designed to look and act like a human being’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1952droid

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

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  1. English1500–presentandroid‘robot designed to look and act like a human being’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1952droid

Earliest quotation: 1952, Mari Wolf, Robots of the World! Arise!: “It's crazy. They're swarming all over Carron City. They're…”

The story

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.

Every English word from English android

Today it means

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

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