Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word AVON

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Definitions of AVON

1. A number of rivers in the United Kingdom:
2. A number of places in the United States of America:
3. Avon-by-the-Sea.
4. A river in Canada ; running from Lake Victoria in Stratford, Ontario into the Thames near St. Marys.
5. A river in Canada ; running from South Mountain in Nova Scotia to the Minas Basin at Avonport.
6. A river in New Zealand ; running from Avonhead into Pegasus Bay.
7. A river in New Zealand ; running from a source in the Marlborough Region into the Waihopai.
8. A river in Australia ; running from Barrington Tops in New South Wales into the Gloucester River at Gloucester.
9. A river in Australia ; running from the Illawarra escarpment in New South Wales into the Cordeaux near Wilton.
10. A river in Australia ; running from Mount Wellington in Victoria into Lake Wellington.
11. A river in Australia ; running from the confluence of Avon and Reedy Creeks in Victoria into the Richardson River at Banyena.
12. A river in Australia ; running from near Pingelly in Western Australia to Walyunga National Park, where it merges with Wooroloo Brook to form the Swan.
13. A former county in England in existence from 1974 to 1996, consisting of Bristol and parts of Gloucestershire and Somerset.
14. A locality in South Australia.
15. A commune in Île-de-France, France.
16. A commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
17. A British surname.

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Examples of Using AVON in a Sentence

• Built around the River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south.
• The Severn's major tributaries are the Vyrnwy, the Tern, the Teme, the Warwickshire Avon, and the Worcestershire Stour.
• The twelve original towns were: Avon, Caledonia, Conesus, Geneseo (county seat), Groveland, Leicester, Lima, Livonia, Mount Morris, Sparta, Springwater, and York.
• The first high speed commercial internet service in Uganda (and Africa) was constructed by international satellite internet backbone provider NSN Network Services of Avon, CO and its Ugandan ISP client, Infomail Uganda Ltd.
• Avon Coachworks, a car body builder established in 1919 at Warwick, England, relaunched in 1922, following refinancing, as New Avon.
• The name is a combination of the Old English strǣt (from Latin stratum), meaning 'street', ford, indicating a shallow part of a river or stream, allowing it to be crossed by walking or driving, and avon which is the Celtic word for river.
• The Chronicle of Tewkesbury records that the first Christian worship was brought to the area by Theoc, a missionary from Northumbria, who built his cell in the mid-7th century near a gravel spit where the Severn and Avon rivers join.
• Its world-renowned collections of American furniture, quilts and folk art are displayed in a Grade I listed 19th-century house, surrounded by gardens overlooking the valley of the River Avon.
• The Clifton Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Avon Gorge and the River Avon, linking Clifton in Bristol to Leigh Woods in North Somerset.
• The county also includes the Lorain County Joint Vocational School District, which encompasses the entire county and serves students from the Amherst, Avon, Avon Lake, Clearview, Columbia, Elyria, Firelands, Keystone, Midview, North Ridgeville, Oberlin, Sheffield-Sheffield Lake and Wellington school districts from a 10-acre campus on a 100-acre site near the intersection of State Route 58 and U.
• District Three: Clyde Barker (Avon, Carrabassett Valley, Coplin Plantation, Dallas Plantation, Eustis, Industry, Kingfield, New Vineyard, Phillips, Rangeley Plantation, Rangeley, Sandy River Plantation, Strong, Weld, and unorganized territories of East Central Franklin, North Franklin, South Franklin, West Central Franklin and Wyman).
• Direct selling was outlawed in China in 1998, which forced Avon to sell only through physical stores called Beauty Boutiques.
• It had come to own "extensive sheep runs on Dartmoor, seventeen manors in central and south Devon, town houses in Exeter, fisheries on the Dart and the Avon, and a country house for the abbot at Kingsbridge".
• Glen Avon, the winning entry, had been dropped into the hat by a Welshman whose boyhood home was said to have been near the Avon River between two glens.
• It is separated from the city of Riverside by the Santa Ana River to the south, borders the Ontario/Fontana area of San Bernardino County to the north and west, and Pedley / Glen Avon to the east.
• 03% YES vote, incorporating the areas of Mira Loma, Pedley, Rubidoux, Glen Avon, and Sunnyslope into a new city, Jurupa Valley.
• On March 8, 2011, voters of Rubidoux and adjoining towns passed Measure A by a 54% "Yes" vote, to incorporate the areas of Mira Loma, Pedley, Rubidoux, Glen Avon, and Sunnyslope into the new city of Jurupa Valley.
• 03% YES vote, incorporating the areas of Mira Loma, Pedley, Rubidoux, Glen Avon, and Sunnyslope into the new city Jurupa Valley.
• One popular destination within Avon is Nottingham Lake, which offers a beach area and paddleboard/pedalboat rentals in the summer.
• Located between Vail and Avon, Eagle-Vail is a residential community of 1,400+ homes with a diverse mix of year-round residents and second homeowners.
• Bloomfield is bordered by Windsor to the northeast, East Granby to the north, Simsbury and Avon to the west, and West Hartford and Hartford to the south.
• The first permanent white settler in Avon Park was Oliver Martin Crosby, a Connecticut native who moved to the area in 1884 to study the wildlife of the Everglades.
• The railroad remains today as the CSX Crawfordsville Sub and is the mainline from Indianapolis and Avon to Chicago.
• Avon is located in eastern Hendricks County and is bordered to the north by Brownsburg, to the west by Danville, the Hendricks County seat, to the south by Plainfield, and to the east by the city of Indianapolis in Marion County.
• Oxford became a sleepy little town inhabited mainly by watermen who still worked the waters of the Tred Avon River.

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