camion
Americannoun
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camions
plural
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a truck used for carrying freight or military supplies, equipment, and troops.
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a strongly built cart or wagon for transporting heavy loads; dray.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of camion
1880–85; < French < ?
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Buy a gift, some kind of gift: a box of chocolate, a strand of pearls, an eau de parfum that fell off the back of a camion de livraison—all are worthy options.
From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2014
The word "camion" in Spanish usually refers to an 18-wheeler, but in Mexico it means "bus."
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2011
On the front seat of the camion a sleepless one handled the wheel, while beside him the relief driver slept on the seat.
From "And they thought we wouldn't fight" by Floyd Gibbons
In the war of 1870 he drove a team instead of a camion.
From "I was there" with the Yanks on the western front, 1917-1919 by Hilmar R. (Hilmar Robert) Baukhage
Then I thought I'd never get the second camion cranked.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
Along the poplar-flickering roads south of Paris last week rolled two camions each bearing an enormous head.
From Time Magazine Archive
We passed other camions on the road and I looked at the country.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
Coming from the other direction with throbbing of motors, a convoy of camions, huge black oblongs, grinds down the other side of the road.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
At 10 o'clock the same night camions were rumbling up, and after all the men had found places, started toward the fateful Marne.
The men packed into the camions had broken through the canvas covers and leaned out, waving their arms and shouting.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
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