Definitions for roan

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roan roan

Spelling: [rohn]

IPA: /roʊn/

Roan is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in roan (anor).

Definitions for roan

noun

1. a horse or other animal with a roan coat.
2. a roan color.
3. a soft, flexible sheepskin leather, used in bookbinding, often made to imitate morocco.

adjective

1. (chiefly of horses) of the color sorrel, chestnut, or bay, sprinkled with gray or white.
2. prepared from leather of this color.

Origin of roan

1520-30; Middle French Old Spanish roano Germanic; compare Gothic rauths red

Examples for roan

“He needs it,” said Lance grimly, with his twisted smile, and went back to the roan.

He would give the roan a flick, and his sulky would flash by.

Have them saddle the roan for me, and they may take the chestnut pair and lead Firefly.

Sile's horse was a roan, and looked like a fast one under a light weight like his.

"You are very good, madam," said Mr. Wilding, and he bowed to the withers of his roan.

There was a roan horse in this one which I knew to belong to the doctor.

He shall have the roan that hoisted you out of the saddle with his hind quarters.

The roan squatted and ducked sidewise, and Lance raised his head.

There's a big five-year-old roan around here that will be safe as a church for you.

He untied and mounted the roan and circled the vicinity cautiously.