Champyon vs Champian - What's the difference?
champyon | champian | Alternative forms |
A plain; a flat expanse of land; a champaign.
A species of landscape that is flat and open.
The level open countryside, as distinct from the mountains, forests or towns.
(agriculture) common land; land that is not enclosed
Someone who farms land that is not enclosed.
A battlefield, especially when flat and open.
A field of inquiry or study.
(obsolete) Flat and open, like a champaign.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.4:
*:Him selfe out of the forest he did wynd, / And by good fortune the plaine champion wonne […].
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