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# camion

«camion» in Mova's school dictionary: **A low, strong truck or cart used to carry heavy things…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a camion, camions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (rare in English) A low, strong truck or cart used to carry heavy things, especially in the army. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camion/#m1)

2) (French and Spanish) «camion» (French) and «camión» (Spanish) mean a lorry or truck; French says it ka-mee-ON with a nasal end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camion/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Rare in English; you meet it in old military history texts. In French lessons, «un camion» is a lorry; in Spanish, «un camión» is a truck, and in Mexico also a bus.

### examples

- (French) Le camion est rouge – the lorry is red. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camion/#x1)
- A camion carried the cannons to the front. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camion/#x2)
- In Mexico, people say «camión» for a bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camion/#x3)
- The soldiers loaded the camion with supplies. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camion/#x4)
- "Camion" is the French word for a truck. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camion/#x5)

### note

Mostly not used in everyday English; say lorry (UK) or truck (US).

### In the corpora

- [rouge means red and already ends in e: une pomme rouge, un camion rouge.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/9-colours/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «camion» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/camion/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.