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camion

[kam-ee-uh n; French ka-myawn]
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noun, plural cam·i·ons [kam-ee-uh nz; French ka-myawn] /ˈkæm i ənz; French kaˈmyɔ̃/.
  1. a strongly built cart or wagon for transporting heavy loads; dray.
  2. a truck, as for military supplies.

Origin of camion

1880–85; < French < ?
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Related Words for camion

van, car, cart, carriage, caravan, chariot, lorry, coach, tram, buggy, dray, caisson, schooner, wain, buckboard, camion, tumbril, barouche, fourgon, gilly

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Historical Examples of camion

  • With a roar of heavy wheels and a grind of gears a camion went by.

  • But I was in luck 'cause a Frenchman had just started his camion an' I jumped in and said the gendarmes were after me.

    Three Soldiers

    John Dos Passos

  • No one goes in or out except by military or Red Cross camion.

    Lest We Forget

    John Gilbert Thompson

  • It has been said that the first battle of Verdun was won by the camion service.

    "I was there"

    C. LeRoy Baldridge

  • At a railroad station on the way we had a collision that did for our camion completely.

British Dictionary definitions for camion

camion

noun
  1. a lorry, or, esp formerly, a large dray

Word Origin for camion

C19: from French, of obscure origin
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