Words that rhyme with mon

• alone 0
  adv 1: without any others being included or involved; "was entirely to blame"; "a school devoted entirely to the needs of problem children"; "he works for Mr. Smith exclusively"; "did it solely for money"; "the burden of proof rests on the prosecution alone"; "a privilege granted only to him" [syn: entirely, exclusively, solely, alone, only] 2: without anybody else or anything else; "the child stayed home alone"; "the pillar stood alone, supporting nothing"; "he flew solo" [syn: alone, solo, unaccompanied] adj 1: isolated from others; "could be alone in a crowded room"; "was alone with her thoughts"; "I want to be alone" 2: lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler" [syn: alone(p), lone(a), lonely(a), solitary] 3: exclusive of anyone or anything else; "she alone believed him"; "cannot live by bread alone"; "I'll have this car and this car only" [syn: alone(p), only] 4: radically distinctive and without equal; "he is alone in the field of microbiology"; "this theory is altogether alone in its penetration of the problem"; "Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint"; "craftsmen whose skill is unequaled"; "unparalleled athletic ability"; "a breakdown of law unparalleled in our history" [syn: alone(p), unique, unequaled, unequalled, unparalleled]
• an 0
  n 1: an associate degree in nursing [syn: Associate in Nursing, AN]
• anon 0
  adv 1: at another time; "ever and anon" 2: (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while; "see you anon"
• atone 0
  v 1: make amends for; "expiate one's sins" [syn: expiate, aby, abye, atone] 2: turn away from sin or do penitence [syn: repent, atone]
• baton 0
  n 1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir [syn: baton, wand] 2: a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club] 3: a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority 4: a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette 5: a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
• bemoan 0
  v 1: regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits" [syn: deplore, lament, bewail, bemoan]
• blown 0
  adj 1: being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor; "blown clouds of dust choked the riders"; "blown soil mounded on the window sill" 2: breathing laboriously or convulsively [syn: blown, pursy, short-winded, winded]
• bone 0
  adj 1: consisting of or made up of bone; "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body" n 1: rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates [syn: bone, os] 2: the porous calcified substance from which bones are made [syn: bone, osseous tissue] 3: a shade of white the color of bleached bones [syn: bone, ivory, pearl, off-white] v 1: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone] 2: remove the bones from; "bone the turkey before roasting it" [syn: bone, debone]
• brawn 0
  n 1: possessing muscular strength [syn: brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness]
• chateaubriand 0
  n 1: French statesman and writer; considered a precursor of the romantic movement in France (1768-1848) [syn: Chateaubriand, Francois Rene Chateaubriand, Vicomte de Chateaubriand] 2: a very thick center cut of beef tenderloin
• chiffon 0
  n 1: a sheer fabric of silk or rayon
• chon 0
  n 1: 100 chon equal 1 won in South Korea 2: 100 chon equal 1 won in North Korea
• clone 0
  n 1: a person who is almost identical to another [syn: ringer, dead ringer, clone] 2: a group of genetically identical cells or organisms derived from a single cell or individual by some kind of asexual reproduction [syn: clone, clon] 3: an unauthorized copy or imitation [syn: knockoff, clone] v 1: make multiple identical copies of; "people can clone a sheep nowadays"
• cologne 0
  n 1: a commercial center and river port in western Germany on the Rhine River; flourished during the 15th century as a member of the Hanseatic League [syn: Cologne, Koln] 2: a perfumed liquid made of essential oils and alcohol [syn: cologne, cologne water, eau de cologne]
• con 0
  adv 1: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.; "much was written pro and con" [ant: pro] n 1: an argument opposed to a proposal [ant: pro] 2: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison [syn: convict, con, inmate, yard bird, yardbird] 3: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam] v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] 2: commit to memory; learn by heart; "Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?" [syn: memorize, memorise, con, learn]
• condone 0
  v 1: excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with; "excuse someone's behavior"; "She condoned her husband's occasional infidelities" [syn: excuse, condone]
• cone 0
  n 1: any cone-shaped artifact 2: a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point [syn: cone, conoid, cone shape] 3: cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts [syn: cone, strobilus, strobile] 4: a visual receptor cell in the retina that is sensitive to bright light and to color [syn: cone, cone cell, retinal cone] v 1: make cone-shaped; "cone a tire"
• crone 0
  n 1: an ugly evil-looking old woman [syn: hag, beldam, beldame, witch, crone]
• cyclone 0
  n 1: (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern [ant: anticyclone] 2: a violent rotating windstorm
• dawn 0
  n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset] 2: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" [syn: dawn, morning] 3: an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" v 1: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place] 2: appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned" 3: become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"
• denouement 0
  n 1: the outcome of a complex sequence of events 2: the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
• dethrone 0
  v 1: remove a monarch from the throne; "If the King does not abdicate, he will have to be dethroned" [ant: enthrone, throne]
• disown 0
  v 1: prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting [syn: disinherit, disown] [ant: bequeath, leave, will] 2: cast off; "She renounced her husband"; "The parents repudiated their son" [syn: disown, renounce, repudiate]
• don 0
  n 1: a Spanish gentleman or nobleman 2: teacher at a university or college (especially at Cambridge or Oxford) [syn: preceptor, don] 3: the head of an organized crime family [syn: don, father] 4: Celtic goddess; mother of Gwydion and Arianrhod; corresponds to Irish Danu 5: a European river in southwestern Russia; flows into the Sea of Azov [syn: Don, Don River] 6: a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for men that is prefixed to the forename; "Don Roberto" v 1: put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He got into his jeans" [syn: wear, put on, get into, don, assume]
• drawn 0
  adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] 2: having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"
• drone 0
  n 1: stingless male bee in a colony of social bees (especially honeybees) whose sole function is to mate with the queen 2: an unchanging intonation [syn: monotone, drone, droning] 3: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke] 4: an aircraft without a pilot that is operated by remote control [syn: drone, pilotless aircraft, radio- controlled aircraft] 5: a pipe of the bagpipe that is tuned to produce a single continuous tone [syn: drone, drone pipe, bourdon] v 1: make a monotonous low dull sound; "The harmonium was droning on" 2: talk in a monotonous voice [syn: drone, drone on]
• fawn 0
  n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn] 2: a young deer v 1: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel] 2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up] 3: have fawns; "deer fawn"
• foregone 0
  adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone]
• gone 0
  adj 1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: done for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)] 2: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep(p), at peace(p), at rest(p), deceased, departed, gone] 3: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone] 4: no longer retained; "gone with the wind"
• groan 0
  n 1: an utterance expressing pain or disapproval [syn: groan, moan] v 1: indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure; "The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The ancient door soughed when opened" [syn: groan, moan]
• grown 0
  adj 1: (of animals) fully developed; "an adult animal"; "a grown woman" [syn: adult, big, full-grown, fully grown, grown, grownup]
• hipbone 0
  n 1: large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis [syn: hipbone, innominate bone]
• hone 0
  n 1: a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening razors v 1: sharpen with a hone; "hone a knife" 2: make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!" [syn: perfect, hone]
• intone 0
  v 1: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn: tone, chant, intone] 2: recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer" [syn: chant, intone, intonate, cantillate] 3: speak carefully, as with rising and falling pitch or in a particular tone; "please intonate with sadness" [syn: intonate, intone]
• john 0
  n 1: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] 2: youngest son of Henry II; King of England from 1199 to 1216; succeeded to the throne on the death of his brother Richard I; lost his French possessions; in 1215 John was compelled by the barons to sign the Magna Carta (1167-1216) [syn: John, King John, John Lackland] 3: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally said to be the author of the 4th Gospel and three epistles and the book of Revelation [syn: John, Saint John, St. John, Saint John the Apostle, St. John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, John the Divine] 4: a prostitute's customer [syn: whoremaster, whoremonger, john, trick] 5: the last of the four Gospels in the New Testament [syn: John, Gospel According to John]
• khan 0
  n 1: a title given to rulers or other important people in Asian countries 2: an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans [syn: caravansary, caravanserai, khan, caravan inn]
• known 0
  adj 1: apprehended with certainty; "a known quantity"; "the limits of the known world"; "a musician known throughout the world"; "a known criminal" [ant: unknown]
• lawn 0
  n 1: a field of cultivated and mowed grass
• loan 0
  n 1: the temporary provision of money (usually at interest) 2: a word borrowed from another language; e.g. `blitz' is a German word borrowed into modern English [syn: loanword, loan] v 1: give temporarily; let have for a limited time; "I will lend you my car"; "loan me some money" [syn: lend, loan] [ant: borrow]
• lone 0
  adj 1: lacking companions or companionship; "he was alone when we met him"; "she is alone much of the time"; "the lone skier on the mountain"; "a lonely fisherman stood on a tuft of gravel"; "a lonely soul"; "a solitary traveler" [syn: alone(p), lone(a), lonely(a), solitary] 2: characterized by or preferring solitude; "a lone wolf"; "a lonely existence"; "a man of a solitary disposition"; "a solitary walk" [syn: lone(a), lonely(a), solitary] 3: being the only one; single and isolated from others; "the lone doctor in the entire county"; "a lonesome pine"; "an only child"; "the sole heir"; "the sole example"; "a solitary instance of cowardice"; "a solitary speck in the sky" [syn: lone(a), lonesome(a), only(a), sole(a), solitary(a)]
• moan 0
  n 1: an utterance expressing pain or disapproval [syn: groan, moan] v 1: indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure; "The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The ancient door soughed when opened" [syn: groan, moan]
• mown 0
  adj 1: (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine; "the smell of newly mown hay" [syn: mown, cut] [ant: uncut, unmown]
• non 0
  adv 1: negation of a word or group of words; "he does not speak French"; "she is not going"; "they are not friends"; "not many"; "not much"; "not at all" [syn: not, non]
• on 0
  adv 1: with a forward motion; "we drove along admiring the view"; "the horse trotted along at a steady pace"; "the circus traveled on to the next city"; "move along"; "march on" [syn: along, on] 2: indicates continuity or persistence or concentration; "his spirit lives on"; "shall I read on?" 3: in a state required for something to function or be effective; "turn the lights on"; "get a load on" adj 1: in operation or operational; "left the oven on"; "the switch is in the on position" [ant: off] 2: (of events) planned or scheduled; "the picnic is on, rain or shine"; "we have nothing on for Friday night" [ant: cancelled, off]
• overblown 0
  adj 1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous] 2: past the stage of full bloom; "overblown roses"
• overgrown 0
  adj 1: covered with growing plants 2: abounding in usually unwanted vegetation
• own 0
  adj 1: belonging to or on behalf of a specified person (especially yourself); preceded by a possessive; "for your own use"; "do your own thing"; "she makes her own clothes"; "`ain' is Scottish" [syn: own(a), ain] v 1: have ownership or possession of; "He owns three houses in Florida"; "How many cars does she have?" [syn: own, have, possess]
• pawn 0
  n 1: an article deposited as security 2: a person used by another to gain an end [syn: instrument, pawn, cat's-paw] 3: (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank 4: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan v 1: leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" [syn: pawn, soak, hock]
• pecan 0
  n 1: wood of a pecan tree 2: tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts [syn: pecan, pecan tree, Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis] 3: smooth brown oval nut of south central United States
• phone 0
  n 1: electronic equipment that converts sound into electrical signals that can be transmitted over distances and then converts received signals back into sounds; "I talked to him on the telephone" [syn: telephone, phone, telephone set] 2: (phonetics) an individual sound unit of speech without concern as to whether or not it is a phoneme of some language [syn: phone, speech sound, sound] 3: electro-acoustic transducer for converting electric signals into sounds; it is held over or inserted into the ear; "it was not the typing but the earphones that she disliked" [syn: earphone, earpiece, headphone, phone] v 1: get or try to get into communication (with someone) by telephone; "I tried to call you all night"; "Take two aspirin and call me in the morning" [syn: call, telephone, call up, phone, ring]
• pone 0
  n 1: cornbread often made without milk or eggs and baked or fried (southern) [syn: cornpone, pone]
• postpone 0
  v 1: hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off]
• prawn 0
  n 1: any of various edible decapod crustaceans [syn: prawn, shrimp] 2: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible v 1: fish for prawns
• prone 0
  adj 1: having a tendency (to); often used in combination; "a child prone to mischief"; "failure-prone" 2: lying face downward [syn: prone, prostrate]
• rapprochement 0
  n 1: the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn: reconciliation, rapprochement]
• roan 0
  adj 1: (used of especially horses) having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or grey; "a roan horse" n 1: a soft sheepskin leather that is colored and finished to resemble morocco; used in bookbinding 2: a horse having a brownish coat thickly sprinkled with white or gray
• salon 0
  n 1: gallery where works of art can be displayed 2: a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work [syn: salon, beauty salon, beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty shop] 3: elegant sitting room where guests are received
• scone 0
  n 1: small biscuit (rich with cream and eggs) cut into diamonds or sticks and baked in an oven or (especially originally) on a griddle
• sewn 0
  adj 1: fastened with stitches [syn: sewed, sewn, stitched]
• sown 0
  adj 1: sprinkled with seed; "a seeded lawn" [syn: seeded, sown]
• spawn 0
  n 1: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn] 2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
• stone 0
  adj 1: of any of various dull tannish or grey colors n 1: a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me" [syn: rock, stone] 2: building material consisting of a piece of rock hewn in a definite shape for a special purpose; "he wanted a special stone to mark the site" 3: material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust; "that mountain is solid rock"; "stone is abundant in New England and there are many quarries" [syn: rock, stone] 4: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone, stone] 5: an avoirdupois unit used to measure the weight of a human body; equal to 14 pounds; "a heavy chap who must have weighed more than twenty stone" 6: the hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed; "you should remove the stones from prunes before cooking" [syn: stone, pit, endocarp] 7: United States jurist who was named chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1941 by Franklin D. Roosevelt (1872-1946) [syn: Stone, Harlan Stone, Harlan F. Stone, Harlan Fisk Stone] 8: United States filmmaker (born in 1946) [syn: Stone, Oliver Stone] 9: United States feminist and suffragist (1818-1893) [syn: Stone, Lucy Stone] 10: United States journalist who advocated liberal causes (1907-1989) [syn: Stone, I. F. Stone, Isidor Feinstein Stone] 11: United States jurist who served on the United States Supreme Court as chief justice (1872-1946) [syn: Stone, Harlan Fiske Stone] 12: United States architect (1902-1978) [syn: Stone, Edward Durell Stone] 13: a lack of feeling or expression or movement; "he must have a heart of stone"; "her face was as hard as stone" v 1: kill by throwing stones at; "People wanted to stone the woman who had a child out of wedlock" [syn: stone, lapidate] 2: remove the pits from; "pit plums and cherries" [syn: pit, stone]
• swan 0
  n 1: stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult v 1: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear] 2: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond] 3: sweep majestically; "Airplanes were swanning over the mountains"
• thereon 0
  adv 1: on that; "text and commentary thereon" [syn: thereon, on it, on that]
• throne 0
  n 1: the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.; "the king sat on his throne" 2: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] 3: the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions v 1: sit on the throne as a ruler 2: put a monarch on the throne; "The Queen was enthroned more than 50 years ago" [syn: enthrone, throne] [ant: dethrone]
• thrown 0
  adj 1: caused to fall to the ground; "the thrown rider got back on his horse"; "a thrown wrestler"; "a ball player thrown for a loss" 2: twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread; "thrown silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn" [syn: thrown, thrown and twisted]
• tone 0
  n 1: the quality of a person's voice; "he began in a conversational tone"; "he spoke in a nervous tone of voice" [syn: tone, tone of voice] 2: (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" 3: (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound); "the timbre of her soprano was rich and lovely"; "the muffled tones of the broken bell summoned them to meet" [syn: timbre, timber, quality, tone] 4: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell] 5: a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color; "after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted" [syn: shade, tint, tincture, tone] 6: a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; "the singer held the note too long" [syn: note, musical note, tone] 7: a steady sound without overtones; "they tested his hearing with pure tones of different frequencies" [syn: tone, pure tone] 8: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity" [syn: tonicity, tonus, tone] [ant: amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony] 9: a musical interval of two semitones [syn: tone, whole tone, step, whole step] 10: the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome" v 1: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn: tone, chant, intone] 2: vary the pitch of one's speech [syn: tone, inflect, modulate] 3: change the color or tone of; "tone a negative" 4: change to a color image; "tone a photographic image" 5: give a healthy elasticity to; "Let's tone our muscles" [syn: tone, tone up, strengthen]
• trombone 0
  n 1: a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide
• unbeknown 0
  adv 1: without someone's knowledge; "unbeknownst to me, she made all the arrangements" [syn: unbeknown, unbeknownst] adj 1: (usually used with `to') occurring or existing without the knowledge of; "a crisis unbeknown to me"; "she had been ill for months, unbeknownst to the family" [syn: unbeknown(p), unbeknownst(p)]
• unknown 0
  adj 1: not known; "an unknown amount"; "an unknown island"; "an unknown writer"; "an unknown source" [ant: known] 2: being or having an unknown or unnamed source; "a poem by an unknown author"; "corporations responsible to nameless owners"; "an unnamed donor" [syn: nameless, unidentified, unknown, unnamed] 3: not known to exist; "things obscurely felt surged up from unknown depths" 4: not famous or acclaimed; "an obscure family"; "unsung heroes of the war" [syn: obscure, unknown, unsung] 5: not known before; "used many strange words"; "saw many strange faces in the crowd"; "don't let anyone unknown into the house" [syn: strange, unknown] n 1: an unknown and unexplored region; "they came like angels out the unknown" [syn: unknown, unknown region, terra incognita] 2: anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found [syn: stranger, alien, unknown] [ant: acquaintance, friend] 3: a variable whose values are solutions of an equation [syn: unknown, unknown quantity]
• wan 0
  adj 1: (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble; "the pale light of a half moon"; "a pale sun"; "the late afternoon light coming through the el tracks fell in pale oblongs on the street"; "a pallid sky"; "the pale (or wan) stars"; "the wan light of dawn" [syn: pale, pallid, wan, sick] 2: abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress; "the pallid face of the invalid"; "her wan face suddenly flushed" [syn: pale, pallid, wan] 3: lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness; "a wan smile" n 1: a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network [syn: wide area network, WAN] v 1: become pale and sickly
• withdrawn 0
  adj 1: withdrawn from society; seeking solitude; "lived an unsocial reclusive life" [syn: recluse, reclusive, withdrawn] 2: tending to reserve or introspection; "a quiet indrawn man" [syn: indrawn, withdrawn]
• won 0
  adj 1: not subject to defeat; "with that move it's a won game" [ant: lost] n 1: the basic unit of money in South Korea [syn: South Korean won, won] 2: the basic unit of money in North Korea [syn: North Korean won, won]
• yawn 0
  n 1: an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy" [syn: yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy] v 1: utter a yawn, as from lack of oxygen or when one is tired; "The child yawned during the long performance" 2: be wide open; "the deep gaping canyon" [syn: gape, yawn, yaw]
• yon 0
  adv 1: at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal); "the house yonder"; "scattered here and yon"- Calder Willingham [syn: yonder, yon] adj 1: distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?" [syn: yonder, yon]
• zone 0
  n 1: a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features 2: any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude [syn: zone, geographical zone] 3: an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic 4: (anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure [syn: zone, zona] v 1: regulate housing in; of certain areas of towns [syn: zone, district] 2: separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off" [syn: partition, zone]
• nippon 0
  n 1: a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building [syn: Japan, Nippon, Nihon]
• yuan 0
  n 1: the basic unit of money in China [syn: yuan, kwai] 2: the imperial dynasty of China from 1279 to 1368 [syn: Yuan, Yuan dynasty, Mongol dynasty]
• n 0
  n 1: a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues [syn: nitrogen, N, atomic number 7] 2: the cardinal compass point that is at 0 or 360 degrees [syn: north, due north, northward, N] 3: a unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 m/sec/sec to a mass of 1 kilogram; equal to 100,000 dynes [syn: newton, N] 4: (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter [syn: normality, N] 5: the 14th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: N, n]
• cohn 0
  n 1: German botanist who is generally recognized as founding bacteriology when he recognized bacteria as plants [syn: Cohn, Ferdinand Julius Cohn]
• rhone 0
  n 1: a major French river; flows into the Mediterranean near Marseilles; "the valley of the Rhone is famous for its vineyards" [syn: Rhone, Rhone River]
• bayonne 0
  n 1: a city in northeastern New Jersey
• capone 0
  n 1: United States gangster who terrorized Chicago during prohibition until arrested for tax evasion (1899-1947) [syn: Capone, Al Capone, Alphonse Capone, Scarface]
• dijon 0
  n 1: an industrial city in eastern France to the north of Lyons
• flintstone 0
  n 1: pebbles of flint used in masonry construction
• homegrown 0
  adj 1: grown or originating in a particular place; "stands selling homegrown fruits and vegetables"
• leone 0
  n 1: the basic unit of money in Sierra Leone; equal to 100 cents
• bourguignon 0
  n 1: reduced red wine with onions and parsley and thyme and butter [syn: bourguignon, bourguignon sauce, Burgundy sauce]
• calderon 0
  n 1: Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681) [syn: Calderon, Calderon de la Barca, Pedro Calderon de la Barca]
• concepcion 0
  n 1: an industrial city in Chile to the south of Santiago
• amman 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Jordan [syn: Amman, capital of Jordan]
• bonn 0
  n 1: a city in western Germany on the Rhine River; was the capital of West Germany between 1949 and 1989
• braun 0
  n 1: the German mistress of Adolf Hitler (1910-1945) [syn: Braun, Eva Braun] 2: United States rocket engineer (born in Germany where he designed a missile used against England); he led the United States Army team that put the first American satellite into space (1912-1977) [syn: Braun, von Braun, Wernher von Braun, Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun]
• conn 0
  v 1: conduct or direct the steering of a ship or plane
• hahn 0
  n 1: German chemist who was co-discoverer with Lise Meitner of nuclear fission (1879-1968) [syn: Hahn, Otto Hahn]
• han 0
  n 1: imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization [syn: Han, Han dynasty]
• kahn 0
  n 1: United States architect (born in Estonia) (1901-1974) [syn: Kahn, Louis Isadore Kahn]
• ron 0
  n 1: a Chadic language spoken in northern Nigeria [syn: Ron, Bokkos, Daffo]
• shawn 0
  n 1: United States dancer and choreographer who collaborated with Ruth Saint Denis (1891-1972) [syn: Shawn, Ted Shawn]
• xian 0
  n 1: a city of central China; capital of ancient Chinese empire 221-206 BC [syn: Xian, Sian, Singan, Changan, Hsian]

See also mon definition and mon synonyms