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tron

tron is the obsolete form of trone.

Meaning of trone

Noun

trone (plural trones)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal, historical, obsolete) A type of steelyard (weighing machine) for heavy wares, such as wool, consisting of two horizontal bars crossing each other, beaked at the extremities, and supported by a wooden pillar.

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Proper noun capitalized: Tron

Tron

  1. (New Zealand, informal) Hamilton, a city in the North Island of New Zealand.
    • I'm headed down to the Tron for the weekend.

Forms of tron

pluraltrons

Questions about tron

What does tron mean?
Tron means hamilton, a city in the North Island of New Zealand.
What is tron the obsolete form of?
Tron is the obsolete form of trone.
What part of speech is tron?
Tron is a proper noun.

Words near tron in the dictionary

  1. tromps
  2. Troms
  3. Troms og Finnmark
  4. Tromso
  5. Tromsø
  6. tron
  7. trona
  8. Tronador
  9. tronage
  10. tronages
  11. tronator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tron (page history and authors); Tron (page history and authors); trone (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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