Ebon

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɛbÉ™n/

Alternative forms

• hebene obsolete

Origin

From Old French eban (modern ébène), from Latin ebenus, from Ancient Greek ἔβενος (ebenos, "ebony tree").

Full definition of ebon

Noun

1. (now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.

Adjective

1. (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.
2. (poetic) Black in colour.

Anagrams

• bone