Rhone

• Rhône

Borrowed from French Rhône.

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• Rhymes: -əʊn

Rhone

2. A major river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea.

• Heron, Honer, Horne, heron, honer, horne

• Rhône (sometimes Switzerland, otherwise uncommon), Rhosne, Rone, Rosne (obsolete)

Borrowed from Middle French Rho(s)ne. 16th century or earlier. Partially displaced older Rotten, which see. All ultimately from Latin Rhodanus.

• IPA^(key): /ʁoːnə/, /ʁoːn/

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• Hyphenation: Rho‧ne

die Rhone f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive der Rhone)

1. Rhone, Rhône (a major river in Switzerland and France that flows from the Alps to the Mediterranean Sea)

   Synonym: (now restricted to the Swiss portion) Rotten m

• Rhone on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Rhone”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “Rhone” in Duden online
• “Rhone” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon