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mon
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun mon has 3 senses
- mon(n = noun.time) monday - the second day of the week; the first working day; Array is a kind of weekday
- mon(n = noun.person) Array - a member of a Buddhist people living in Myanmar and adjacent parts of Thailand; Array is a kind of buddhist
- mon(n = noun.communication) Array - the Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Mon; Array is a kind of mon-khmer
has particulars: whitmonday, whitsun monday
CIDE DICTIONARY
mon, n. [Jap., usually translated as crest.].
The badge of a family, esp. of a family of the ancient feudal nobility. The most frequent form of the mon is circular, and it commonly consists of conventionalized forms from nature, flowers, birds, insects, the lightnings, the waves of the sea, or of geometrical symbolic figures; color is only a secondary character. It appears on lacquer and pottery, and embroidered on, or woven in, fabrics. The imperial chrysanthemum, the mon of the reigning family, is used as a national emblem. Formerly the mon of the shoguns of the Tokugawa family was so used. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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