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capon

/ˈkeɪpən/

capon noun: a cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.

Noun

capon (plural capons)

  1. A cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
    • […] And then, the Iustice / In faire round belly, with good Capon lin'd,c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • […] You cannot feed capons so.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Verb

capon (third-person singular simple present capons, present participle caponing, simple past and past participle caponed)

  1. (transitive) To castrate; to make a capon of.

Proper noun capitalized: Capon

Capon

  1. A surname.

capon meaning in Tamil and Bengali

capon in Tamil

விரை நீக்கப்பட்ட பறவை, சேவற்றலை, விதைநீக்கிய

capon in Bengali

খাবার উপযোগী খাসি মোরগ

Forms of capon

Noun
pluralcapons
Verb
third-person singular presentcapons
present participlecaponing
past participlecaponed
pastcaponed

Origin of capon

Inherited from Middle English capoun, from Old English capūn, from Old Northern French capon (Old French chapon), from Latin cāpō, cāpōnem (Vulgar Latin *cappō).

Words formed from capon

Questions about capon

What does capon mean?
Capon means a cockerel which has been gelded and fattened for the table.
What is capon in Tamil?
Capon in Tamil is விரை நீக்கப்பட்ட பறவை, சேவற்றலை, விதைநீக்கிய. See Capon meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is capon?
Capon can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce capon?
Capon is pronounced /ˈkeɪpən/ (UK).
What is the plural of capon?
The plural of capon is capons.

Words near capon in the dictionary

  1. capologist
  2. capologists
  3. capology
  4. capomo
  5. capomos
  6. capon
  7. caponata
  8. caponatas
  9. Capone
  10. caponed
  11. Capones

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Adapted from Wiktionary: capon (page history and authors); Capon (page history and authors); capon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); capon (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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