Fon
Americannoun
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Fons,
plural
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Fon
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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.
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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
Plai Fon, whose formal name was Siriprapa Prasertsuk, was the eldest of Tukta’s two children, three years older than her baby brother.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2022
The exhibition’s explanatory text and the free tours offered by guides are available only in French, not in Fon, the local language.
From New York Times ● Aug. 21, 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 Graham Everitt
“The problem isn’t the font, it’s the herd mentality,” said Fons Mans, founder of the Dutch design studio Offgrid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
She shared the prize, for her career spanning more than 40 years in stage, film and television, with director and writer Jorge Fons.
From BBC ● Jan. 1, 2024
He is also the first Belgian to win an individual time trial in the Vuelta since Fons De Wolf in Valladolid in 1979.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2022
"If you’re struggling with a new infant, and you’re unable to take care of that baby, the best response is to find somebody that can help you at a designated safe haven," Fons said Monday.
From Fox News ● Jan. 11, 2022
Shortly before the army showed itself in the narrow valley of the Alzou, the towns of Fons and Gavache had capitulated, the inhabitants having sworn that they would remain English ever afterwards.
From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker
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