Word Type

Noun

Verb

Proper Noun

Adjective

The word "cannon" can be used as noun, verb, proper noun and adjective.

Word Relationships

Typical Location

17th century ship fort museum park pirate ship war war museum warship

Capable Of

fire cannonball

Coordinate Terms

firearm rerebrace small arm vambrace

Derived Terms

Cannon County Cannonism Vulcan cannon autocannon calcium cannon cannon ball cannon bit cannon bone cannon box cannon cocker cannon cracker cannon fodder cannon game cannon lock cannon metal cannon pinion cannon roll cannon shot cannon-ball cannon-fodder cannonade cannonball cannoneer cannoner cannonlike cannonproof cannonry chicken cannon custard cannon demi-cannon glass cannon hand cannon loose cannon megacannon noob cannon nursery cannon potato cannon slum cannon snow cannon spool cannon supercannon water cannon

Inflected/Variant Forms

canon

Context

baseball billiards engineering historical middle ages pool printing snooker sports

Has Property

heavy

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

armor plate armor plating armour plate artillery body part discharge gun heavy weapon hit muster out ordnance plate armor plate armour shot stroke

Type Of (IsA)

armor plate artillery body part gun large gun weapon weapon of war

Manner Of

discharge hit

Part Of

animal leg body armor bomber tank ungulate

Receives Action

used in war

Related Terms

ancient ancient gun appendage artillery artillery tube assembly base cap battle battle weapon big big gun boat bombard breech cannonade cannonballs cannoneer carom castles civil civil war cue ball demolishing fetlock fire fires fires cannonballs firing for shooting gun howitzer huge huge one invention mortar muzzle nursery cannon old old weapon pirate pirate boat projectiles round round projectiles shaft shooting war weapon

Synonym Network

carom

Used For

battle cannon balls fire cannon balls fire grapeshot firing salute kill people killing enemy killing people making war shoot at armies shoot cannon ball shoot cannon balls shoot cannonballs shooting artillery rounds shooting cannonballs use by military war

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.