MON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mon mean? 

• MON (noun)
  The noun MON has 3 senses:

1. the second day of the week; the first working day

2. a member of a Buddhist people living in Myanmar and adjacent parts of Thailand

3. the Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Mon

  Familiarity information: MON used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The second day of the week; the first working day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

Mon; Monday

Hypernyms ("Mon" is a kind of...):

weekday (any day except Sunday (and sometimes except Saturday))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Mon"):

Whitmonday; Whitsun Monday (the day after Whitsunday; a legal holiday in England and Wales and Ireland)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of a Buddhist people living in Myanmar and adjacent parts of Thailand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Mon" is a kind of...):

Buddhist (one who follows the teachings of Buddha)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Mon-Khmer language spoken by the Mon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Mon" is a kind of...):

Mon-Khmer (a branch of the Austro-Asiatic languages)

 Context examples 

I am right glad, mon garcon, to see that the good monks have trained thee so wisely and so well.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“And do you dream?” said the dæmon.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It extends from the mons pubis to the perineum.

(Labium Majus, NCI Thesaurus)

"Shall we see you this evening, mon frere?" asked Amy, as they parted at her aunt's door.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

If we had a quick voyage it would be no to our miscredit wi' the owners, or no hurt to our traffic; an' the Old Mon who had served his ain purpose wad be decently grateful to us for no hinderin' him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Bending over the balcony, I was about to murmur 'Mon ange'—in a tone, of course, which should be audible to the ear of love alone—when a figure jumped from the carriage after her; cloaked also; but that was a spurred heel which had rung on the pavement, and that was a hatted head which now passed under the arched porte cochere of the hotel.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the dæmon generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“A mon coeur, camarade, a mon coeur! Ah, but I am blithe to see thee!”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nothing could be more complete than the alteration that had taken place in my feelings since the night of the appearance of the dæmon.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You have clean overshot the butts this time, mon camarade.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)