Fon
Americannoun
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a member of a people living mainly in Benin.
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the Kwa language, very closely related to Ewe, spoken by the Fon people.
Example Sentences
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“I journeyed so long in my mind, but it was so dark in this foreign place,” he intones, in Fon, the nearly eradicated language of Dahomey, “that I lost myself in my dreams.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 2, 2024
The Dahomey, also called the Fon, in West Africa traditionally believed that women had three souls and men had four.
From Scientific American • Jun. 14, 2023
On Thursday, Plai Fon went to the Young Children’s Development Center, where the walls are adorned with cheerful pictures of flowers and butterflies.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2022
Fon Angwafor III was frequently referred to as King Solomon the Wise by his subjects.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2022
The great Chinese autocrat, mighty Fon Whong, Was cured of the ‘doldrums’ by famed Doctor Long!
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Everitt, Graham
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