Chillon

[ shuh-lon, shil-uhn; French shee-yawn ]

noun

1. an ancient castle in W Switzerland, at the end of Lake Geneva.

Chillon

/ ʃijɔ̃; ʃɪˈlɒn /

noun

1. a castle in W Switzerland, in Vaud at the E end of Lake Geneva

Example Sentences

The record is sometimes referred to as The Signature and is set by the Lake Geneva Swimming Association, an organisation recognised globally by endurance swimmers to adjudicate the swim from Chateau de Chillon to the Bains des Paquis.

From BBC

“If we plant the water, we can harvest the water,” says Lucila Castillo Flores, a communal farmer in the Andes village of Huamantanga above the Chillón River valley in Peru.

From Scientific American

Las tumbas recién descubiertas probablemente formaban parte de un cementerio utilizado durante cientos de años por diferentes grupos que cultivaban a lo largo del río Chillón, dijo Roberto Quispe, arqueólogo de Cálidda.

From New York Times

The newly uncovered graves were most likely part of a cemetery used for hundreds of years by different groups that farmed along the Chillón River, said Roberto Quispe, an archaeologist with Cálidda.

From New York Times

They had been talking of Bonnivard, as they glided past Chillon, and of Rousseau, as they looked up at Clarens, where he wrote his Heloise.

From Literature