camion

«camion» in Mova's school dictionary: A low, strong truck or cart used to carry heavy things… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a camion, camions)

meaning for a pupil

1) (rare in English) A low, strong truck or cart used to carry heavy things, especially in the army. tree →

2) (French and Spanish) «camion» (French) and «camión» (Spanish) mean a lorry or truck; French says it ka-mee-ON with a nasal end. tree →

sense in the lessons

Rare in English; you meet it in old military history texts. In French lessons, «un camion» is a lorry; in Spanish, «un camión» is a truck, and in Mexico also a bus.

examples

• (French) Le camion est rouge – the lorry is red. tree →
• A camion carried the cannons to the front. tree →
• In Mexico, people say «camión» for a bus. tree →
• The soldiers loaded the camion with supplies. tree →
• "Camion" is the French word for a truck. tree →

note

Mostly not used in everyday English; say lorry (UK) or truck (US).

In the corpora

• rouge means red and already ends in e: une pomme rouge, un camion rouge.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «camion» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.