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horonym

horonym is the alternative form of choronym.

Meaning of choronym

Noun

choronym (plural choronyms)

  1. A type of toponym representing the name of a region, country or any other territory.
    • Choronym (Gk. khôra, “place,” “land," "country" + -onym). A type of toponym, as the name of any country, territory, region, district or the like. Ex. America, United States, Scotland, Armenia, Texas, Siberia, Rocky Mountains, Yellowstone National Park, Provence, Sicily, Antarctica.1996, Adrian Room, An Alphabetical Guide to the Language of Name Studies

Forms of horonym

pluralhoronyms

Questions about horonym

What is horonym the alternative form of?
Horonym is the alternative form of choronym.

Words near horonym in the dictionary

  1. horometrical
  2. horometries
  3. horometry
  4. Horonite
  5. Horonites
  6. horonym
  7. horonyms
  8. horophile
  9. horophiles
  10. horopito
  11. horopter

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horonym (page history and authors); choronym (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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