Word.ws English Dictionary

Chaon

Chaon proper noun: a character in Virgil's Aeneid: a Trojan hero, a companion or perhaps brother of Helenus, and the eponym of Chaonia and the Chaonians.

Proper noun

Chaon

  1. (Greek) A character in Virgil's Aeneid: a Trojan hero, a companion or perhaps brother of Helenus, and the eponym of Chaonia and the Chaonians.
    • Andromache informs Aeneas that Helenus named the region Chaonia after the Trojan Chaon (334-5).1997, Michael Paschalis, Virgil's Aeneid: Semantic Relations and Proper Names, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 132
  2. A surname.

Origin of Chaon

Related to χάος (kháos).

Questions about Chaon

What does Chaon mean?
Chaon means a character in Virgil's Aeneid: a Trojan hero, a companion or perhaps brother of Helenus, and the eponym of Chaonia and the Chaonians.
What part of speech is Chaon?
Chaon is a proper noun.

Words near Chaon in the dictionary

  1. chaologist
  2. chaologists
  3. chaology
  4. chaomancy
  5. chaomian
  6. Chaon
  7. Chaonan
  8. chaoni
  9. chaonis
  10. chaoosh
  11. chaophilia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Chaon (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Chaon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chaon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.