Word.ws English Dictionary

megacannon

megacannon noun: a large cannon.

Noun

megacannon (plural megacannons)

  1. (rare) A large cannon.
    • The prisoners—the President, the First Lady, and their son, nine-year-old Billy—their hands tied securely behind their backs, were marched from the ship and across the floor of the canyon to the base of an enormous megacannon.1996, David Cody Weiss, Bobbi J. G Weiss, Randy Kornfield, Jingle All the Way: A Novelization, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 2
    • “Look,” he says, “I’m a razor from the ship’s bridge crew. The Rain brought down the zone and then hosed down the fleet with that DE megacannon outside—"2009, David J. Williams, The Burning Skies, Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 105

Forms of megacannon

pluralmegacannons

Origin of megacannon

From mega- + cannon.

Questions about megacannon

What does megacannon mean?
Megacannon means a large cannon.
What part of speech is megacannon?
Megacannon is a noun.
What is the plural of megacannon?
The plural of megacannon is megacannons.

Words near megacannon in the dictionary

  1. megacalories
  2. megacalycosis
  3. megacampus
  4. megacampuses
  5. megacandela
  6. megacannon
  7. megacannons
  8. megacap
  9. megacapillaries
  10. megacapillary
  11. megacaps

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: megacannon (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “megacannon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/megacannon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.