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say it: rohn
roan is a noun and adjective meaning "a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding". It carries 3 recorded senses.
(used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey
“a roan horse”
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 roan 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.