chevron
Meanings
Plural: chevrons
Noun
- V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service
- an inverted V-shaped charge
- A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
- A wide inverted V placed on a shield.
- One of the V-shaped markings on the surface of roads used to indicate minimum distances between vehicles.
- A guillemet, either of the punctuation marks “«” or “»”, used in several languages to indicate passages of speech. Similar to typical quotation marks used in the English language such as ““” and “””.
- An angle bracket, either used as a typographic or a scientific symbol.
- A háček, a diacritical mark that may resemble an inverted circumflex.
- A wedge-shaped sediment deposit observed on coastlines and continental interiors around the world.
- Synonym of arrowhead (“horse jump obstacle”).
Verb
- To form or be formed into chevrons
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English cheveroun, from Old French chevron, the mark so called because it looks like rafters of a shallow roof, from Vulgar Latin *capriō, from Latin caper (“goat”), the likely connection between goats and rafters being the animal's horns.
Scrabble Score: 15
chevron is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordchevron is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
chevron is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 17
chevron is a valid Words With Friends word