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æquison

UK/ˈɛkwɪsən/

æquison is the obsolete spelling of equison.

Meaning of equison

Noun (1)

equison (plural equisons)

  1. (rare) An equisonant note.

Noun (2)

equison (plural equisons)

  1. (archaic) Groom, ostler, equerry, jockey.
    • Once indeed, I confess it, I was very near falling as low: words passed between me and the more favored man of letters, who announces to the world the Works and Days of Newmarket, — the competitors at its games, their horses, their equisons and colours, and the attendant votaries of that goddess...1824–1829: Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume 1, page 13 (1891 republication)

Forms of æquison

pluralæquisons

Origin of æquison

Borrowed from Latin aequisonus, from aequus (“equal”) in combination with sonus (“sounding”).

Questions about æquison

What is æquison the obsolete spelling of?
Æquison is the obsolete spelling of equison.
How do you pronounce æquison?
Æquison is pronounced /ˈɛkwɪsən/ (UK).

Words near æquison in the dictionary

  1. æquinoxes
  2. æquipoise
  3. æquipoises
  4. æquiponderant
  5. æquipotential
  6. æquison
  7. æquisonant
  8. æquisons
  9. æquitable
  10. æquities
  11. æquity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: æquison (page history and authors); equison (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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