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Bon

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//bɒn//
  • United States//bɑn//

An indigenous Tibetan religion, in many ways akin to Tibetan Buddhism.

proper noun

  1. 1

    An indigenous Tibetan religion, in many ways akin to Tibetan Buddhism.

Etymology

Borrowed from Tibetan བོན (bon).

proper noun

  1. 1

    Synonym of Obon

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).