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rincon

rincon is the alternative spelling of rincón.

Meaning of rincón

Noun

rincón (plural rincons or rincones)

  1. (Southwestern, US) A meadow on the south-facing upper slopes of a mountain.
  2. (Southwestern, US) An abandoned meander.
  3. (Southwestern, US) An interior corner; a nook; hence, an angular recess or hollow bend in a mountain, river, cliff, etc.

Proper noun capitalized: Rincon

Rincon (countable and uncountable, plural Rincons)

  1. A surname from Spanish.
  2. An unincorporated community in San Diego County, California.
  3. A city in Effingham County, Georgia.
  4. A census-designated place in Doña Ana County, New Mexico.
  5. A town in Bonaire, a special municipality of the Netherlands in the Caribbean.

Forms of rincon

Noun
pluralrincons
Proper noun
pluralRincons

Origin of rincon

Borrowed from Spanish Rincón.

Phrases with rincon

Questions about rincon

What does rincon mean?
Rincon means a surname from Spanish.
What is rincon the alternative spelling of?
Rincon is the alternative spelling of rincón.
What part of speech is rincon?
Rincon is a proper noun.

Words near rincon in the dictionary

  1. rinched
  2. rinches
  3. rinching
  4. Rinck
  5. Rincks
  6. rincon
  7. Rincon Hill
  8. Rinconada
  9. rincones
  10. Rinconeses
  11. rincons

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rincon (page history and authors); Rincon (page history and authors); rincón (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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