Definitions for Grisons

Grisons Gri·sons

Spelling: [French gree-zawn]
IPA: /French griˈzɔ̃/

Grisons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in Grisons (ginorss).

Definitions for Grisons

noun

  1. a canton in E Switzerland. 2747 sq. mi. (7115 sq. km). Capital: Chur.
  2. a weasellike carnivore, Galictis vittata, ranging from southern Mexico to Peru, having a grayish-white upper body, a distinctive white stripe across the forehead and ears, and a dark brown face, chest, and legs.

Origin of Grisons

1790-1800; French, equivalent to Middle French gris gray (see griseous) + -on diminutive suffix

Examples for Grisons

In their period of power, the Grisons masters had treated their Italian dependencies with harshness.

One day, a stranger from Zurich crossed the river, and waited on the saddler of Flasch, the frontier village of the Grisons.

I remember, in 1828, to have met one of these in the Grisons, near the upper end of the valley of the Rhine.

Compelled to flee from their native land, they naturally took refuge in Switzerland or in the Grisons.

It had invaded the country of the Grisons, and the Valtelline, and was preparing to come down on the Milanese.

It is the capital of the Canton of Grisons, and was the seat of a bishop as early as 562.

In 1481, cockchafers committed great ravages in the Grisons.

Reprinting it in 1879, after eighteen months spent continuously in one high valley of the Grisons, I feel how slight it is.

Even on one's way to Italy one may spare a throb of desire for the beautiful vision of the castled Grisons.

You made us wait long enough; I began to fear that you had taken root in the Grisons.

Word Value for Grisons
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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