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# sion

«sion» in Mova's school dictionary: **a word ending that makes nouns, as in «television»…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

fragment; proper noun (Sion — a town; an old spelling of Zion)

### meaning for a pupil

1) «-sion» is a word ending that makes nouns, as in «television», «decision», «explosion»; it often sounds like «zhun» or «shun». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sion/#m1)

2) Sion is a town in Switzerland, in the Alps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sion/#m2)

3) Sion is an old spelling of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem in the Bible, often used to mean God's city or God's people (as in Sion College, Mount Sion). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sion/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In spelling lessons «-sion» and «-tion» are taught together: «decide → decision», «explode → explosion». In church and Bible reading, «Sion» or «Zion» appears in hymns and psalms. On its own «sion» is not an everyday English word.

### examples

- «Television» ends in -sion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sion/#x1)
- «Decide» becomes «decision». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sion/#x2)
- «Explode» becomes «explosion». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sion/#x3)
- Sion is a town in the Swiss mountains. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sion/#x4)
- The old hymn sings of the hill of Sion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sion/#x5)
- Spell «confusion» with -sion, not -tion. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sion/#x6)
- He had just to return the way he came, through St. Maurice and Sion, to his home in the valley. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sion/#x7)

### note

Mostly a suffix, not a word. Spelling tip: words ending in «-de» or «-se» often take «-sion» (decide → decision, confuse → confusion); many others take «-tion». With a capital S it is a place name.

### In the corpora

- [The /shun/ ending is spelled -tion, -sion, -ssion or -cian, almost never «shun».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/16/)
- [The softer /zhun/ sound is usually spelled -sion: television, division, decision.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/8-endings-that-sound-like-shun/22/)
- [from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, even unto mount Sion — the same is Hermon —](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.160/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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