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chicon

chicon noun: an edible chicory bud.

Noun (1)

chicon (plural chicons)

  1. An edible chicory bud.

Noun (2) capitalized: Chicon

Chicon (plural Chicons)

  1. (slang) A name given to various science fiction conventions held in Chicago, United States.

Forms of chicon

pluralchicons
pluralChicons

Origin of chicon

Borrowed from French chicon.

Questions about chicon

What does chicon mean?
Chicon means an edible chicory bud.
What part of speech is chicon?
Chicon is a noun.
What is the plural of chicon?
The plural of chicon is chicons.

Words near chicon in the dictionary

  1. Chicom
  2. Chicomecoatl
  3. Chicoms
  4. Chicomuceltec
  5. Chicomucelteco
  6. chicon
  7. Chicongo
  8. chiconomics
  9. chicons
  10. Chicopee
  11. Chicopee Falls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chicon (page history and authors); Chicon (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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