cannon

1. 1.

   make a cannon

   Broaderhit

   billiards

2. 2.

   fire a cannon

   Broaderdischarge

Other forms of cannon

plural

cannons·

past tense

cannonned·

present participle

cannonning·

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 cannon

What does cannon mean?

cannon means "a large artillery gun that is usually on wheels". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cannon?

cannon has 2 syllables: can-non. The stress falls on "can". In IPA it is /ˈkænən/.

What is another word for cannon?

Close synonyms include shank, carom. 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 cannon a common word?

cannon is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with cannon?

2 words rhyme with cannon. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.