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coney

name · noun · 10 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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1

name

Meaning 1

A surname.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

name

Meaning 2

An unincorporated community in Crisp County, Georgia, United States.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

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3

noun

Meaning 3

The Jamaican coney (Geocapromys brownii), a hutia endemic to Jamaica.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Jamaica

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Ellipsis of Coney Island hot dog.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

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Synonyms: none provided

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5

noun

Meaning 5

Alternative spelling of cony (“a rabbit, a hyrax”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

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6

noun

Meaning 6

Alternative spelling of cony (“a species of fish”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: alt-of, alternative

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7

noun

Meaning 7

any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: rabbit, cony

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: leporid, leporid mammal

Narrower terms: rabbit ears, lapin, bunny, bunny rabbit, European rabbit, Old World rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, wood rabbit, cottontail, cottontail rabbit, Belgian hare, leporide, Angora, Angora rabbit

8

noun

Meaning 8

small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pika, mouse hare, rock rabbit, cony

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: lagomorph, gnawing mammal

Narrower terms: little chief hare, Ochotona princeps, collared pika, Ochotona collaris

9

noun

Meaning 9

any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hyrax, cony, dassie, das

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal

Narrower terms: rock hyrax, rock rabbit, Procavia capensis

10

noun

Meaning 10

black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Epinephelus fulvus

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: grouper

History

Etymology

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