Dictionary![]() ![]() BonPronunciation: (bon; Fr. bôn), [key] —n. Cape, a cape on the NE coast of Tunisia: surrender of the German African forces, May 12, 1943. Also called Ras Addar. BonPronunciation: (bôn), [key] —n. an annual festival of the Japanese Buddhists, welcoming ancestral spirits to household altars. Also called Feast of Lanterns. BönPronunciation: (bōn), [key] —n. a shamanistic Tibetan sect, absorbed by the first Buddhist sects of the 7th century and later. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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