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The director of the never completed and never to be seen android drama series White Horse/Conquest, the 47-year-old Rinsch could be incarcerated for the rest of his life if found guilty by a jury.—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 3 Apr. 2025 But when Amelia — an autonomous android built based on the design for M3GAN, enters the scene — M3GAN convinces Gemma to put her back into her body (with an upgrade) in order to help stop the evil robot.—Skyler Caruso, People.com, 3 Apr. 2025 The result is an epic tale of androids and AI warring in the aftermath of human civilization.—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025 The English-language film tells the story of Commander Pirx, who leads a small group of androids and humans into space.—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Feb. 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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