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say it: KAHN-voy
convoy is a noun and verb meaning "a procession of land vehicles traveling together". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a procession of land vehicles traveling together
a collection of merchant ships with an escort of warships
the act of escorting while in transit
escort in transit
“the trucks convoyed the cars across the battle zone”
“the warships convoyed the merchant ships across the Pacific”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for convoy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.