cannon – English noun declension

English noun forms of cannon

Noun: cannon
Singularcannon
Pluralcannons; cannon

Sample Sentences

  • Holonyms: gun, field gun; howitzer; mortar
  • water cannon; glitter cannon; confetti cannon; potato cannon
  • a canon of beef or lamb
  • Near-synonym: gun (often synonymous)
  • In English billiards, a cannon is when one’s cue ball strikes the other player’s cue ball and the red ball on the same shot; and it is worth two points.
  • He’s got a cannon out in right.
  • The pauldrons are rather weak, but the cannons of the vambraces are good and come from an Italian armour of considerably earlier date, for they have the tulip form of the first half of the century. [1949, The Connoisseur:]
  • During the second half of the century the upper cannons were often joined to the pauldrons […] Here the cannons and the couter, although separate, are joined together when worn by the points securing them to the arming […] [1972, Claude Blair, European Armour: Circa 1066 to Circa 1700:]
  • The breastplate was now usually globular in shape with attached tassets. The arm defenses were almost always in one piece, the lower and upper cannons joined permanently to the couter with internal leathers and rivets, and the whole frequently also joined permanently to the pauldron. [2007, Kelly DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, Medieval Weapons: An Illustrated History of Their Impact, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 178:]
  • I also learned never to conspicuoulsy^([sic]) watch a cannon while he was working. Pickpockets dislike being watched, even by those who may be "right," because they become uneasy and clumsy and feel conspicuous. [1977, Robert S. Weppner, Street ethnography, page 70:]
  • A good pickpocket is known to his fellows as a pistol. Rufus Dayne is a cannon. One of the best pickpockets in the country, he makes close to a million dollars a year and has no criminal record at all. [2009, James Thomson, Bedlam City: Savage Worlds Edition, page 377:]

Etymology

Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na) (for more, see cane). Doublet of canyon. This spelling was not fixed until about 1800. See: Middle English Nouns 'canon', Italian Nouns 'cannone', Latin Nouns 'canna', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κάννα'.