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Gryffindor
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English
Hogwarts#Houses
Etymology
en Q34660, presumably from en griffin and a compound of the en fr d'or.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɡɹɪfɪnˌdɔɹ/
en En-us-Gryffindor.oga US
Noun
en sometimes used attributively A person having traits associated with Gryffindor house from the Harry Potter Harry Potter series, including bravery, boldness, or an affinity for lions or the colours red and gold.
en Cyrus Duff Which House? Harry Potter Helps Sort Presidential Field https://web.archive.org/web/20110916085040/http://articles.courant.com/2011-08-24/news/hc-op-duff-fresh-talk-potter-presiden20110824_1_perry-and-mitt-romney-hogwarts-presidents Hartford Courant 24 August 2011 Barack Obama, on the other hand, is a consummate Gryffindor. He comes across in interviews and speeches as someone who's truly kind and angry about the country's woes, though it's clear he doesn't recklessly allow this anger to cloud his decisions.
en 2012 Eloisa James Paris in Love http://books.google.ca/books?id=6aiiwwXxjmcC&pg=PA167&dq=%22a+gryffindor%22 167 Random House 2013 9780812981902 I pulled out a Gryffindor key chain I had been saving for just such an emergency, and she cheered up while telling me why she was definitely a Gryffindor and not a Slytherin.
en 2013 Patricia Briggs Frost Burned http://books.google.com/books?id=h9sPEM0LwpYC&pg=PT179&dq=%22a+gryffindor%22 Berkley 2013 9781101619650 I had just freed a man wearing a dark blue suit and a Gryffindor tie when Asil's shout made me turn to see Frost right on top of me.
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Coordinate terms
en Hufflepuff
en Ravenclaw
en Slytherin
Derived terms
en Gryffindorish
en ten points from Gryffindor
en ten points to Gryffindor
Translations
Gryffindor house
Chinese:
Mandarin: Mainland China cmn 格蘭芬多 Gélánfēnduō; Taiwan cmn 葛來分多 Gěláifēnduō
Czech: cs Nebelvír
Dutch: nl griffioendeur f
Finnish: fi Rohkelikko
French: fr Gryffondor
German: de Greiftür f
Hebrew: he גריפינדור m grifindor
Hindi: hi गरुड़द्वार m
Hungarian: hu Griffendél
Italian: it Grifondoro
Japanese: ja グリフィンドール Gurifindōru
Norwegian: no Griffing m
Persian: fa گریفیندور gerifindor
Polish: pl Gryffindor m
Portuguese: pt Grifinória f
Russian: ru Гри́ффиндор m
Slovak: sk Chrabromil m
a person having traits associated with Gryffindor house
Polish: pl Gryfon m
Russian: ru гриффиндорец m
en terms derived from Harry Potter
en Harry Potter People