avon

Other forms of avon

plural

avons·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about avon

What does avon mean?

avon means "a river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in avon?

avon has 2 syllables: a-von. The stress falls on "a". In IPA it is /ˈeɪvɑn/.

What is another word for avon?

Close synonyms include River Avon, River Avon, Upper Avon, Upper Avon River. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is avon a common word?

avon is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.