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Nearly all of humanity — 12 planets’ worth — is annihilated by the Cylons, an android race created by mankind itself.—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 3 July 2025 Buzzi and Nabors played time-traveling androids on the 1976 ABC series The Lost Saucer, produced by Sid and Marty Krofft.—Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2025 Gone is the hook of the title character as a demon-doll android who becomes an 8-year-old’s surrogate assassin.—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 June 2025 And Haley Joel Osment is just terrific as the android who, like Pinocchio before him, longs to be a real boy.—Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for android
Word History
Etymology
earlier androides "automaton having a human form," borrowed from French androïde, perhaps borrowed from Late Greek androeidḗs "in the form of a man, like a man," from Greek andr-, anḗr "man, husband, human" + -oeidēs-oid entry 2 — more at andro-
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The word may equally well have been formed in post-medieval Latin, but evidence is lacking. An early English instance can be found in The History of Magick by way of Apology, for all the Wise Men who have unjustly been reputed Magicians (London, 1657), a translation, by "J. Davies," of Apologie pour tous les grands personnages qui ont esté faussement soupçonnez de magie (Paris, 1625) by the French librarian and scholar Gabriel Naudé (1600-53). The French word occurs earlier in Le mastigophore, ou precurseur du Zodiaque ([Paris]: 1609), a satirical work by the priest Antoine Fuzy/Fusi (1560-1629). Both authors use androïde in connection with the legendary talking automaton devised by albertus magnus, without any suggestion that the word was a neologism.
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