English Explanatory Dictionary

Trianon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Either of the Grand Trianon and Petit Trianon, two royal palaces constructed in Versailles, France, in the 17th and 18th centuries.
  2. The Treaty of Trianon, a peace treaty signed in the Grand Trianon on 4 June 1920, which formally ended World War I between most of the Allies and the Kingdom of Hungary, leaving Hungary as a landlocked state with less than one-third of its prewar area.

Pronunciation

/ˈtɹiːəˌnɒn/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Trianon.wav

Word forms

Trianon Trianons

Etymology

From French Trianon, the name of a hamlet that formerly occupied the site on which the Grand Trianon would be built.

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