exon
US/ˈɛksɑn/
exon noun: an officer of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
Noun (1)
exon (plural exons)
- An officer of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
Noun (2)
exon (plural exons)
Proper noun capitalized: Exon
Exon (plural Exons)
- A surname
Forms of exon
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | exons |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Exons |
Origin of exon
Apparently an attempt to express the pronunciation of French exempt.
Combination of the prefix ex of the term expressed (region) and the term intron.
Clipping of Medieval Latin Exonia (or perhaps its adjective form Exoniensis), the Latin name for Exeter which appears in the Liber Exoniensis (1086), + -an. See also Exonian.
Words formed from exon
- exitron
- exome
- exonal
- exon capture
- exonic
- exonization
- exonized
- exonship
- exon shuffling
- exon trapping
- exonull
- interexon
- intraexon
- microexon
- miniexon
- multiexon
- pseudoexon
- subexon
- Exon Domesday
Questions about exon
- What does exon mean?
- Exon means an officer of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
- What part of speech is exon?
- Exon can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce exon?
- Exon is pronounced /ˈɛksɑn/ (US).
- What is the plural of exon?
- The plural of exon is exons.
Words near exon in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: exon (page history and authors); Exon (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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