walloon

1. 1.

   a member of the French-speaking people living in Belgium

   BroaderBelgian

   Part ofBelgium
2. 2.

   a dialect of French spoken in Belgium and adjacent parts of France

   BroaderFrench

Other forms of walloon

plural

walloons·

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 walloon

What does walloon mean?

walloon means "a member of the French-speaking people living in Belgium". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in walloon?

walloon has 2 syllables: wal-loon. The stress falls on "wal".

Is walloon a common word?

walloon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.