English

Proper noun

Avon

1. A surname​.
2. Any of several rivers in Britain.
3. A former county of England in existence from 1974 to 1996 and created from Bristol, southern Gloucestershire and northern Somerset. Then bordering Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Somerset. It was replaced by the unitary authorities of Bristol, South Gloucestershire, North Somerset and Bath and North East Somerset
4. A town in Alabama
5. A town in Colorado
6. A town in Connecticut
7. A village in Illinois
8. A town in Indiana
9. A town in Maine
10. A town in Massachusetts
11. A city in Minnesota
12. A census-designated place in Montana
13. A town and village in New York
14. A census-designated placein North Carolina
15. A city in Ohio
16. A census-designated placein Pennsylvania
17. A city in South Dakota
18. A census-designated placein Utah
19. A town in Wisconsin

Derived terms

• Avon Gorge

Anagrams

• nova, Nova

Breton

Alternative forms

• aven

Noun

avon f

1. (archaic) river

Esperanto

Noun

avon

1. accusative singular of avo

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader) avant
• (Sutsilvan) avànt
• (Puter) aunz, avaunt

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin abante, from Latin ab + ante, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- ‎(“front, forehead”).

Preposition

avon

1. (Sursilvan) before, beforehand
2. (Sursilvan) ago