Noun: avion
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | avion |
| Plural m | avions |
Sample Sentences
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Regarde comme cet avion vole vite ! (Look how fast this plane flies!)
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– Qu'est ce que c'est que cette chose-là? – Ce n'est pas une chose. Ça vole. C'est un avion. C'est mon avion. Et j'étais fier de lui apprendre que je volais. Alors il s'écria: – Comment! tu es tombé du ciel! (— What is that thing? — That's not a thing. It flies. It's an aeroplane. It's my aeroplane. And I was proud to teach him that I was flying. Then he exclaimed: — What! You fell from the sky!) [1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chapter III, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 13:]
Nouns inflected like avion
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Coined by French inventor and engineer Clément Ader for a patent application. From earlier Avion (1875), from Latin avis (“bird”) + -on, replacing earlier aéroplane after WWI.
Verbs referencing "avion"
Romanian Nouns
avion, Portuguese Nouns
avião, Asturian Nouns
avión, Galician Nouns
avión, Spanish Nouns
avión, Catalan Nouns
avió.
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