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cannonier

cannonier is the alternative form of cannoneer.

Meaning of cannoneer

Noun

cannoneer (plural cannoneers)

  1. An artillery soldier who maintains and operates (historical) a cannon, or (now) some other piece of heavy artillery.
    • Luckily, the cannoneer was only mildly injured when his cannon malfunctioned.

Forms of cannonier

pluralcannoniers

Origin of cannonier

Unadapted borrowing from French cannonier: see further at cannoneer.

Questions about cannonier

What is cannonier the alternative form of?
Cannonier is the alternative form of cannoneer.

Words near cannonier in the dictionary

  1. cannoneers
  2. cannoner
  3. cannoners
  4. Cannones
  5. cannonfodder
  6. cannonier
  7. cannoniers
  8. cannoning
  9. Cannonism
  10. cannonite
  11. cannonlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cannonier (page history and authors); cannoneer (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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