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andon

andon noun: a Japanese paper lantern.

Noun

andon (countable and uncountable, plural andons)

  1. (countable) A Japanese paper lantern.
  2. (uncountable) A system that notifies workers of a quality or process problem, sometimes with a means to pause production until the problem is resolved.
  3. (countable) A light used to indicate a problem in the andon manufacturing system.

Proper noun capitalized: Andon

Andon (plural Andons)

  1. A surname from Galician.

Forms of andon

Noun
pluralandons
Proper noun
pluralAndons

Origin of andon

(manufacturing): Borrowed from Japanese アンドン (andon), a specialization of 行灯 (andon). Introduced by Toyota.

Borrowed from Galician Andon, a variant of Anton.

Questions about andon

What does andon mean?
Andon means a Japanese paper lantern.
What part of speech is andon?
Andon can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of andon?
The plural of andon is andons.

Words near andon in the dictionary

  1. Andolanjeevi
  2. Andolanjeevis
  3. andolast
  4. Andolina
  5. Andolinas
  6. andon
  7. Andong
  8. andons
  9. Andoque
  10. Andoquero
  11. andor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: andon (page history and authors); Andon (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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