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Orlon

Orlon noun: a synthetic fibre used in yarn and knitwear.

Noun

Orlon (uncountable)

  1. a synthetic fibre used in yarn and knitwear
    • 1971: This garish, deep orlon-carpeted lobby of the Desert Inn seemed an inappropriate place to be haggling about nickel/dime bribes for the parking lot attendant. — Hunter S. Thompson. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial 2005, p. 44)

Orlon meaning in Tamil

Orlon in Tamil

ஆர்லான்

Origin of Orlon

From orl- (perhaps after Orleans) + -on (compare nylon, rayon, developed by the same company).

Questions about Orlon

What does Orlon mean?
Orlon means a synthetic fibre used in yarn and knitwear.
What is Orlon in Tamil?
Orlon in Tamil is ஆர்லான். See Orlon meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Orlon?
Orlon is a noun.

Words near Orlon in the dictionary

  1. orlings
  2. orlistat
  3. orlo
  4. Orloff
  5. Orloffs
  6. Orlon
  7. orlong
  8. orlongs
  9. orlop
  10. orlop deck
  11. orlop decks

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Orlon (page history and authors); orlon (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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