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Econ vs Ebon - What's the difference?

econ | ebon |

As an abbreviation econ

is economics.

As a noun ebon is

(now poetic) ebony; an ebony tree.

As an adjective ebon is

(poetic) made of ebony.

econ

English

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (head)
  • economics
  • economy

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    ebon

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hebene (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (poetic) Made of ebony.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.5:
  • *:“A stranger knight,” sayd he, “unknowne by name, / But knowne by fame, and by an Hebene speare […].”
  • * 1745 , (Edward Young), Night-Thoughts , I:
    • Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, / In rayless majesty, now stretches forth / Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world.
  • (poetic) Black in colour.

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