Noun: chevron
| Singular | chevron |
| Plural | chevrons |
Sample Sentences
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Jejeune's canoe sent a chevron of silver ripples scurrying across the mirror-calm surface as it carved its path through the dark water. [2019, Steve Burrows, A Dance of Cranes: A Birder Murder Mystery, Oneworld Publications:]
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As I stood in amaze-ment, chevron after chevron after chevron of these massive birds crisscrossed the sky, practically blocking out the sun and creating an unparalleled cacophony of sight and sound. [2013, Budd Titlow, Bird Brains, Globe Pequot, page 29:]
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And then we observed what caused us to rub our eyes wonderingly-a chevron of geese gliding directly for the tip of the point. [1928 October, Kendrick Kimball, “Injun Summer Calms”, in Field and Stream, CBS Publications, page 82:]
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That was the first chevron of geese to pass this way. [2007, Robert Fripp, Power of a Woman, Rosetta Solutions, page 169:]
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A chevron of seagulls passes overhead, wings perfectly still. [2015, Phil Cousineau, The Book of Roads: Travel Stories from Michigan to Marrakech, Viva Editions:]
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A chevron of ducks flies high overhead. [2025, Bill Arnott, A Perfect Day for a Walk: The History, Cultures, and Communities of Vancouver, on Foot, Arsenal Pulp Press:]
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2009, Jamie Dunn, Truckie has a point, Sunshine Coast Daily Online, June 13, 2009.
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I told you that in fact they were called chevrons and it was an exercise by the transport department to teach us to stay two chevrons behind the car in front.
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It is pertinent to remember, however, that one of the greatest phoneticians, Jan Hus, used diacritics (in the form of points, which have later become chevrons in his own language), and that his alphabet is the most satisfactory for eastern Europe, since it has been officially adopted by the languages which use the Latin script. [1953, William James Entwistle, Aspects of Language, Faber and Faber, page 107:]
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The symbol ř (“r” with a chevron) is used for a phoneme which sounds like Czech ř (as in Dvořák), i.e. a voiced alveolar flap. The presence of the chevron has no effect on the index numbers used in transliteration; cf. 2.058. [1976, Stephen J. Lieberman, The Sumerian Loanwords in Old-Babylonian Akkadian (Harvard Semitic Studies, issue 22; published by Scholars Press for Harvard Semitic Museum), page 66]
Nouns inflected like chevron
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *kápros
3. Proto-Italic *kapros
4. Latin caper
5. Latin *capreus
6. Vulgar Latin *capriō
7. Old French chevronbor.
8. Middle English cheveroun
9. English chevron
10. From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns. See: Latin Nouns '
caper'.
Verbs referencing "chevron"
Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
sjevron, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
sjevron.