lion

a large heavily built social cat Panthera leo of open or rocky areas chiefly of subSaharan Africa though once widely distributed throughout Africa and southern Asia that has a tawny body with a tufted tail and a shaggy blackish or dark brown mane in the male

The first known use: in the 12th century

Word Structure

4 Letters, 2 Syllable	lion

4 Phonemes	l I ə n

onset, rime	- -

Morpheme	lion

Sentence Examples

He was a literary lion among the writers of his time.

Related Words

Sound the same but are spelled differently.

cat	cougar	wildcat
griffin	leo	lioness

Collocations

The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance.

ant lion	sea lion	mountain lion
Coeur de Lion	the lion and the unicorn	mountain lion
lion and the unicorn	to beard the lion in his den

Neighborhood

Onset Friends

like	little	look
long	let	last
left	live	light

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