champian

• champion, champyon

Variant form of champaign.

champian (plural champians)

1. Synonym of champaign

champian (not comparable)

1. Synonym of champaign
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene ii:

     An hundred horeſmen of my companie
     Scowting abroad vpon theſe champion plaines,
     Haue view’d the army of the Scythians,
     Which make report it far exceeds the Kings.

   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Him selfe out of the forest he did wynd, / And by good fortune the plaine champion wonne […].

   • 1652, George Sandys, Sandys Travailes: containing a history of the Originall an ...‎, page 21:

     The countrey above, is champian and not barren,- but rarely inhabited.

   • 1703, Daniel Whitby, A paraphrase and commentary on the New Testament‎:

     The lower, which contained the Tribes of Zcbulon and Iffachar, because it was Champian, was called the Great Field

   • 1715, Guy Miege, Present State of His Majesty's Dominions in Germany‎, page 558:

     The Couutry in general is Champian, and low, but sometimes rises into pleasant Hills

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “champian”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• Panchami, chinampa