Meanings
alternative champion · alternative champyon
- not comparableSynonym of champaign.
The countrey above, is champian and not barren,- but rarely inhabited.
1652, George Sandys, Sandys Travailes: containing a history of the Originall an ..., page 214 more examples
An hundred horeſmen of my companie Scowting abroad vpon theſe champion plaines, Haue view’d the army of the Scythians, Which make report it far exceeds the Kings.
c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iiHim selfe out of the forest he did wynd, / And by good fortune the plaine champion wonne […].
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLCThe lower, which contained the Tribes of Zcbulon and Iffachar, because it was Champian, was called the Great Field
1703, Daniel Whitby, A paraphrase and commentary on the New TestamentThe Couutry in general is Champian, and low, but sometimes rises into pleasant Hills
1715, Guy Miege, Present State of His Majesty's Dominions in Germany, page 558Synonyms: champaign
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of champaign.
adjectiveSynonym of champaign.
Origin
Variant form of champaign.
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champian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/champian
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