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cothons

cothons is the plural of cothon.

Meaning of cothon

Noun

cothon (plural cothons)

  1. An artificial, protected harbor in a Phoenician city, especially and originally the one in Carthage.
    • The cothons at Carthage, during the Punic wars, are said to have held over two hundred ships. The small size of the Motya cothon may be accounted for by […]1965, Helen Hill Miller, Sicily and the Western Colonies of Greece, New York: Scribner

Questions about cothons

What is cothons the plural of?
Cothons is the plural of cothon.

Words near cothons in the dictionary

  1. Cothern
  2. Cotherns
  3. Cotherstone
  4. cothes
  5. cothon
  6. cothons
  7. cothouse
  8. cothouses
  9. Cothran
  10. Cothrans
  11. Cothren

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