Definitions for cordon

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cordon cor·don

Spelling: [kawr-dn]

IPA: /ˈkɔr dn/

Cordon is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in cordon (cdnoor).

Definitions for cordon

noun

1. a line of police, sentinels, military posts, warships, etc., enclosing or guarding an area.
2. a cord or braid worn for ornament or as a fastening.
3. a ribbon worn usually diagonally across the breast as a badge of a knightly or honorary order.
4. Fortification. a projecting course of stones at the base of a parapet. the coping of a scarp.
5. Architecture. a stringcourse, especially one having little or no projection. a cut-stone riser on a stepped ramp or the like.
6. a fruit tree or shrub trained to grow along a support or a series of such supports.

verb (used with object)

1. to surround or blockade with or as with a cordon (usually followed by off):

Origin of cordon

1400-50; Middle English Middle French, diminutive of corde

Examples for cordon

How I should like to have drawn a cordon of policemen round the party and netted the whole.

A cordon of cottages at a little distance were the homes of the assistant warders.

I threaded my way through the silent throng of spectators, but was stopped at Fourth Street by a cordon of police.

A group of people can cordon off your dies and force management to use nightsticks if they want to get at them.

I'm trying to form a cordon, but this damned mob's in the way.

And in the name of friendship, let me beg of you to place this cordon in your hat.

Turkish authorities poured into the small town to cordon off the sites, with riot police keeping the crowds away.

By the time he reached the cordon a violent fusillade was in progress.

The first part I read, a minor cordon Bleu instructor, required me to say the words “an egg.”

cordon off a few key machines and the assembly line cannot function.