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ison

ison noun: accompanying drone in Byzantine music.

Noun

ison

  1. Accompanying drone in Byzantine music.

Proper noun capitalized: Ison

Ison (plural Isons)

  1. A surname.

Forms of ison

pluralIsons

Origin of ison

From Byzantine Greek ἴσον (íson).

Questions about ison

What does ison mean?
Ison means accompanying drone in Byzantine music.
What part of speech is ison?
Ison can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near ison in the dictionary

  1. isomyopia
  2. isomyopic
  3. isomyosin
  4. isomyosins
  5. isomyristicin
  6. ison
  7. Isonade
  8. isonandra
  9. isonandras
  10. isoneotype
  11. isoneotypes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ison (page history and authors); Ison (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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