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 < ?
Example Sentences
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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
It was raining outside and now and then a dripping camion passed along the road, slithering through the mud.
From One Man's Initiation—1917 by John Dos Passos
No one goes in or out except by military or Red Cross camion.
From Lest We Forget World War Stories by Inez Bigwood
So I just climbed up in the second camion and backed it off into the bushes....
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
The house shook, the windows rattled, the glasses danced on the sideboard to the thunder of the innumerable marching feet outside, to the endless rumble of the camions and artillery.
From Home Fires in France by Dorothy Canfield
Sometimes the camions slithered in the mud till they came to a stop in the gutter.
From Our Army at the Front by Heywood Broun
The first lot of "camions" were to have taken six battalions—i.e., the 14th Brigade, which was just ahead of us, and half of the 15th Brigade.
From The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by Lord Edward Gleichen
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