| v {letter}
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:: The twenty-second letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet
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| VA {n} [initialism, film]
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:: "version anglais" — English-language version (EV); a film dubbed in English
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| va banque {phrase}
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:: hit the bank
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| vacance {f}
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:: vacancy, free position
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| vacance {f} [plural only]
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:: holidays
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| vacance {f}
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:: vacation
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| vacancier {m}
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:: holiday-maker
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| vacancier {adj}
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:: holiday (attributive)
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| vacancière {f}
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:: feminine noun of vacancier
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| vacant {adj}
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:: vacant
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| vacarme {m}
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:: noise, din, uproar, racket
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| vacataire {mf}
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:: temp, temporary
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| vacataire {mf}
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:: supply teacher
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| vacation {f} [legal]
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:: session
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| vaccarèse {m}
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:: A variety of black grape from the Rhône region
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| vaccénique {adj} [organic chemistry]
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:: vaccenic
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| vaccin {m}
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:: vaccine (substance that stimulates production of antibodies)
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| vaccinal {adj}
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:: vaccinal
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| vaccination {f}
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:: vaccination
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| vacciner {v}
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:: to vaccinate
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| vaccinologie {f}
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:: vaccinology
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| vaccinologue {mf}
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:: vaccinologist
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| vaccinothérapie {f} [medicine]
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:: vaccine therapy
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| vache {f}
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:: cow (bovine)
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| vache {adj} [colloquial]
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:: harsh
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| vache {adj} [informal, slang]
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:: nasty
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| vache à lait {f}
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:: cash cow (something that generates free cash flow)
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| vache de mer {f}
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:: sea cow
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| vachement {adv} [slang, colloquial]
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:: bloody, extremely
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| vacher {m}
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:: cowherd
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| vachère {f}
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:: cowgirl
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| vacherie {f}
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:: cowshed
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| vacherie {f}
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:: nastiness, wickedness
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| vacherin {m}
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:: vacherin
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| vacherin {m}
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:: A kind of cake made with meringue and cream or ice cream
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| Vacher luisant {m}
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:: shiny cowbird (Molothrus bonariensis)
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| vache sacrée {f} [figuratively]
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:: taboo subject, sacred cow (something which shouldn't be broached or criticized, for fear of public outcry)
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| vaches maigres {fp} [figuratively]
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:: scarcity
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| vachette {f}
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:: young cow, calf
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| vachette {f}
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:: calfskin
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| vachette {f} [historical]
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:: type of dice game
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| va chier {interj} [vulgar]
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:: go fuck yourself! fuck off!
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| Vachon {prop}
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:: surname
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| vacillamment {adv}
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:: vacillatingly
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| vacillant {adj}
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:: vacillating
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| vacillement {m}
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:: flicker, flickering
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| vacillement {m}
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:: lurch, lurching
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| vaciller {v}
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:: to vacillate
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| vaciller {v}
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:: to flicker out (as a candle)
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| vacuité {f}
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:: vacuum, emptiness
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| vacuolaire {adj}
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:: vacuolar
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| vacuolome {m} [biology]
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:: vacuome
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| vacuome {f}
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:: vacuome
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| vacuum {m}
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:: vacuum (space containing no matter)
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| Vadel {prop}
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:: surname
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| vader {v} [nonstandard, Louisiana French, Cajun French, ]
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:: alternative form of aller, to go
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| vader {v} [Switzerland]
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:: to get away
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| vadimien {adj}
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:: Of or relating to Roger Vadim Plemiannikov (1928–2000), French screenwriter, film director and producer, known for visually lavish films with erotic qualities
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| vadrouille {f} [colloquial]
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:: walk, wander, stroll
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| vadrouille {f} [dated, outside, Quebec]
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:: mop (implement for washing floors)
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| vadrouiller {v}
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:: to gad about, loiter about, wander around
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| Vaduz {prop}
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:: Vaduz (town/and/municipality/capital)
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| va-et-vient {m}
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:: comings and goings, toing and froing
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| va-et-vient {m} [electronics]
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:: two-way switch
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| vagabond {adj}
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:: vagabonding
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| vagabond {m}
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:: vagabond
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| vagabondage {m}
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:: vagabondage
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| vagabonde {f}
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:: feminine noun of vagabond
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| vagabonder {v}
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:: to walk about, wander
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| vagabonder {v}
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:: to roam, wander, walk the earth
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| vagal {adj} [anatomy]
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:: vagal
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| vagin {m}
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:: vagina
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| vaginal {adj}
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:: vaginal
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| vaginalement {adv}
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:: vaginally
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| vagine {f}
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:: vagina
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| vaginisme {m}
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:: vaginismus (muscular contraction)
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| vaginoplastie {f}
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:: vaginoplasty
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| vaginovésical {adj} [anatomy]
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:: vaginovesical
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| vagir {v} [chiefly of a baby or child]
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:: to wail; to howl; to bawl
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| vagissement {m} [chiefly of a child or baby]
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:: cry; wail; howl
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| vagonet {m}
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:: alternative spelling of wagonnet
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| vague {f}
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:: wave
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| vague {adj}
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:: vague
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| vague {m}
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:: vagueness
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| vague à l'âme {m} [figuratively]
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:: sadness, melancholy, dumps
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| vague de chaleur {f}
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:: heat wave, hot spell
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| vague de froid {f}
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:: cold snap, cold wave
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| vaguelette {f}
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:: wavelet
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| vaguement {adv}
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:: vaguely
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| vaguemestre {m} [military, archaic]
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:: wagonmaster
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| vaguemestre {m} [military]
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:: letter corporal, military postman
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| vaguer {vi} [dated or literary]
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:: to wander, to wander aimlessly
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| vahiné {f}
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:: wahine (Polynesian woman)
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| vaillamment {adv}
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:: valiantly
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| vaillance {f} [usually, in the singular]
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:: valiance, courage, bravery
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| Vaillancourt {prop}
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:: surname
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| vaillant {adj}
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:: valiant
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| vaillant {adj} [Quebec, Acadia]
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:: hard-working
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| vaillant {adj} [Louisiana French]
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:: nice
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| vaillant {adj} [Louisiana French]
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:: healthy
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| vaille que vaille {adv}
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:: as best one can, somehow
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| vain {adj}
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:: useless, ineffective, fruitless
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| vain {adj}
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:: vain, shallow
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| vaincre {vt}
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:: to defeat, vanquish
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| vaincre {vi}
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:: to win
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| vaincu {m}
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:: loser (defeated party)
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| vainement {adv}
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:: vainly, in vain
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| vainqueur {m}
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:: conqueror
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| vainqueur {m}
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:: victor, winner
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| vair {m} [tincture]
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:: vair
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| vairon {adj}
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:: (of eyes) wall-eyed
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| vairon {m}
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:: minnow
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| vaironner {vi}
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:: to minnow (fish trout using a minnow as bait)
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| vaisseau {m}
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:: ship, vessel
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| vaisseau {m}
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:: vessel (i.e. blood vessel)
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| vaisseau sanguin {m} [anatomy]
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:: blood vessel
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| vaisseau spatial {m}
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:: spaceship (vehicle that flies through space)
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| vaisselier {m}
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:: dresser (vertical china cabinet)
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| vaisselle {f}
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:: crockery, dishes, dishware
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| vaisselle {f}
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:: table- and cookware that remains to be washed
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| val {m} [literary]
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:: valley, vale
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| valable {adj}
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:: valid, acceptable
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| valablement {adv}
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:: validly
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| Valachie {prop} {f}
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:: Wallachia
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| Valais {prop} {m}
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:: Valais (canton)
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| valaque {adj}
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:: Wallachian (related to Wallachia)
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| Valaque {mf}
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:: Wallachian (someone from Wallachia)
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| Valcourt {prop}
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:: surname
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| Val d'Aoste {prop} {m}
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:: Valle d'Aosta
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| Val-de-Livre {prop}
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:: A commune in Marne, France
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| Val de Loire {prop} {m}
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:: Loire Valley
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| Val-de-Marne {prop}
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:: Val-de-Marne (department)
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| valdingue {m}
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:: fall, falling
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| valdingue {m}
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:: drop, dropping
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| valdinguer {v}
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:: To fail
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| Val-d'Oise {prop} {m}
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:: Val-d'Oise (department)
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| Val-d'Or {prop}
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:: Val-d'Or (town)
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| valence {f} [chemistry]
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:: valence
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| valence {f} [linguistics]
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:: valency
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| Valence {prop} {f}
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:: Valence (city/and/commune/capital)
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| Valence {prop} {f}
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:: Valence (village/commune)
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| Valence {prop} {f}
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:: Valence (town/commune)
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| Valence {prop} {f}
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:: Valence (capital city)
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| Valence {prop} {f}
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:: Valence (autonomous community)
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| Valence {prop} {f}
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:: Valence (province)
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| valenciennois {adj}
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:: Of or from Valenciennes
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| Valentin {prop}
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:: given name
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| Valentine {prop}
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:: given name, feminine form of Valentin
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| valéral {f} [organic compound]
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:: valeral
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| valérate {m} [organic chemistry]
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:: valerate
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| valérianate {m} [organic chemistry]
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:: valerianate
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| valériane {f}
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:: valerian (plant)
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| valérianique {adj}
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:: valerianic
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| valérianique {adj} [organic chemistry]
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:: valeric
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| Valérie {prop}
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:: given name
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| valérine {f} [organic compound]
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:: valerin
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| valérique {adj} [organic chemistry]
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:: valeric
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| Valéry {prop} {m}
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:: given name derived from Latin Valerius
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| valet {m} [history]
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:: a male attendant of a knight or a lord
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| valet {m} [history]
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:: officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre
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| valet {m}
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:: a male servant, a footman
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| valet {m}
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:: a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit
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| valet {m} [card games]
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:: jack
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| valetaille {f}
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:: lackeys, flunkeys
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| valet d'écurie {m}
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:: groom, stableboy
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| valétudinaire {adj}
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:: valetudinarian
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| valeur {f}
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:: value, worth
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| valeur {f}
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:: valor, gallantry
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| valeur absolue {f}
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:: absolute value (numerical value of a real number)
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| valeur ajoutée {f} [economics]
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:: value added
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| valeur ajoutée {f} [by extension]
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:: added value
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| valeur de vérité {f} [logic]
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:: truth value
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| valeureusement {adv}
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:: valiantly, bravely
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| valeureux {adj}
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:: valiant; brave
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| valeur faciale {f} [economics]
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:: par value, face value, stated value
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| valeur nominale {f} [economics]
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:: par value, face value, stated value
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| valeur propre {f} [linear algebra]
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:: eigenvalue
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| valeur sûre {f}
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:: a sound investment, a time-tested asset; a safe bet
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| validation {f}
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:: validation
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| valide {adj}
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:: valid
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| validement {adv}
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:: validly
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| valider {v}
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:: to validate
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| validité {f}
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:: validity
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| valise {f}
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:: case, suitcase
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| vallaud {adj}
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:: Of or from La Valla-en-Gier
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| vallécule {f} [anatomy]
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:: vallecula
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| vallée {f} [geography]
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:: valley
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| Vallée d'Aoste {prop} {f}
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:: Vallée d'Aoste (region)
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| Vallée des rois {prop} {f}
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:: Valley of the Kings (Egyptian valley known for its tombs)
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| vallon {m}
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:: dale, small valley
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| vallonné {adj}
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:: hilly
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| vallonnement {m}
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:: undulation
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| valoche {f} [familiar]
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:: suitcase
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| valoir {vi}
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:: to be worth
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| valoir {vt}
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:: to earn, to win, to bring (something of value)
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| valoir {vr}
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:: to be the same, to have no difference between
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| valoir la peine {v} [de]
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:: to be worth the trouble; to be worth it; to be worthwhile
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| valoir le détour {v} [colloquial]
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:: to be worth the trip, to be worth the journey, to be worth a visit, to be worth seeing (literally, "to be worth the detour")
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| valoir mieux {v} [impersonal]
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:: be better
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| valoir son pesant d'or {v} [colloquial, figuratively]
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:: to be worth one's weight in gold
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| valois {adj}
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:: Of or from any of several places named Val
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| Valois {prop}
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:: surname
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| Valois {prop}
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:: The dynasty that ruled France in the 14th to 16th centuries
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| valorisable {adj}
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:: recoverable
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| valorisant {adj}
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:: valorizing (that adds value)
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| valorisation {f}
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:: promotion
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| valorisation {f}
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:: gain in value, appreciation
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| valoriser {v}
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:: to valorize, to add value
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| valse {f}
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:: waltz
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| valser {v}
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:: to waltz
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| valser {v}
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:: to be moved quickly and violently
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| valseur {m}
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:: waltzer
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| valseuse {f}
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:: feminine noun of valseur
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| valse viennoise {f}
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:: Viennese waltz (dance)
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| valve {f}
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:: valve
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| vamper {v}
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:: to vamp (seduce)
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| vampire {m}
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:: vampire
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| vampirique {adj}
|
:: vampiric
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| vampiriser {v}
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:: to vampirize
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| vampirisme {m}
|
:: vampirism
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| van {m}
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:: a winnowing basket
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| vanadique {adj}
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:: vanadic
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| vanadium {m}
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:: vanadium
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| vancouverois {adj}
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:: Vancouverite
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| Vancouverois {m}
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:: Vancouverite
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| vancouvérois {adj}
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:: Vancouverite
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| Vancouvérois {m}
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:: Vancouverite
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| Vancouveroise {f}
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:: feminine noun of Vancouverois
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| Vancouvéroise {f}
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:: feminine singular of Vancouvérois
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| vandale {mf}
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:: vandal
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| vandale {mf}
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:: Vandal
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| Vandale {m}
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:: Vandal (member of an ancient east Germanic tribe)
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| vandaliser {v}
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:: to vandalise, to vandalize
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| vandalisme {m}
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:: vandalism
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| Vandievoet {prop} [chiefly Belgium]
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:: surname
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| Van Dievoet {prop} [chiefly Belgium]
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:: surname
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| vandoise {f}
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:: dace, chub
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| Vanessa {prop}
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:: given name
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| vanille {f}
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:: vanilla
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| vanillé {adj}
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:: vanilla, vanilla-flavoured
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| vanilline {f}
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:: vanillin
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| vanilloïde {m} [organic chemistry]
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:: vanilloid
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| vanité {f}
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:: futility, pointlessness
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| vanité {f}
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:: vanity (excessive pride)
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| vanité {f}
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:: vanitas
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| vaniteuse {f}
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:: feminine noun of vaniteux
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| vaniteusement {adv}
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:: vainly, frivolously
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| vaniteux {adj}
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:: conceited, frivolous, vain
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| vaniteux {m}
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:: a conceited person, frivolous person, vain person
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| vannage {m} [agriculture]
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:: winnowing
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| vanne {f}
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:: floodgate, gate
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| vanne {f} [colloquial]
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:: pointed pleasantry, dig, cutting remark
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| vanneau {m}
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:: lapwing (bird)
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| vanneau {m}
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:: queen scallop (mollusc)
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| vanner {vt} [agriculture]
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:: to winnow
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| vanner {vt}
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:: to shake about, jolt, jostle
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| vanner {vt}
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:: to scrutinise (analyse thoroughly)
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| vanner {v} [colloquial]
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:: to knacker, tire out, flush
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| vanner {v} [cooking]
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:: to stir (a sauce or soup) to avoid the formation of a skin
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| vanner {vt}
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:: to provide [a river] with sluice gates or floodgates
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| vanner {vi}
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:: to kid, joke, crack jokes
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| vanner {vt} [colloquial]
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:: to kid, tease, rib someone
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| vannerie {f}
|
:: wickerwork
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| vannerie {f}
|
:: the art of making wickerwork
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| Vannes {prop}
|
:: Vannes
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| vanneur {m}
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:: winnower
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| vanneuse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of vanneur
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| vannier {m}
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:: basketmaker, basketweaver
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| vannière {f}
|
:: feminine singular of vannier
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| vantail {m}
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:: leaf (of door), panel (of window)
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| vantail {m}
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:: door (of cupboard, wardrobe etc.)
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| vantard {m}
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:: boaster, bragger
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| vantardise {f}
|
:: boastfulness
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| vantardise {f}
|
:: braggartry
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| vanté {adj}
|
:: praised, vaunted
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| vanter {v}
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:: to praise, to vaunt
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| vanter {vr}
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:: to boast, brag
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| vanuatais {adj}
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:: Vanuatuan
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| Vanuatu {prop} {m}
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:: Vanuatu
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| va-nu-pieds {mf}
|
:: tramp, homeless person
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| vapeur {f}
|
:: steam
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| vapeur {f}
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:: vapour
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| vapeur {m}
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:: steamship
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| vapeur d'eau {f}
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:: water vapor, steam
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| vapocraquage {m} [chemistry]
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:: steam cracking
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| vapocraquer {v} [chemistry]
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:: to steam-crack
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| vapocraqueur {m} [chemistry]
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:: steam cracker
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| vapocuiseur {m}
|
:: pressure cooker
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| vaporeusement {adv}
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:: steamily, mistily
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| vaporeusement {adv}
|
:: transparently
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| vaporeux {adj}
|
:: vaporous, misty
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| vaporeux {adj}
|
:: filmy, transparent
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| vaporisateur {m}
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:: vaporizer
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| vaporisation {f}
|
:: vaporization
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| vaporiser {v}
|
:: to vaporize (turn into vapour)
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| vapoter {v}
|
:: To vape (smoke e-cigarettes)
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| vapoteur {m}
|
:: vaper (person who uses e-cigarettes)
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| vapoteuse {f}
|
:: feminine singular of vapoteur
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| vaquer {v} [archaic]
|
:: to vacate
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| vaquer {v} [archaic]
|
:: to discontinue
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| vaquer {v}
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:: to busy oneself with, to be occupied with
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| vaquer {v}
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:: to scurry about looking for food
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| vaquer {v}
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:: to get down to business
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| Var {prop} {m}
|
:: Var
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| varan {m}
|
:: monitor lizard
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| Varane {prop}
|
:: surname
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| varappe {f} [sports]
|
:: rock climbing
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| varapper {v}
|
:: to go rock climbing, climb rocks
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| varappeur {m}
|
:: climber, rock climber
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| varappeuse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of varappeur
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| varec {m}
|
:: alternative spelling of varech
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| varech {m}
|
:: kelp
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| Varennes {prop}
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:: A French commune
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| vareuse {f} [nautical]
|
:: blouse
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| vareuse {f} [military]
|
:: tunic
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| variabilité {f}
|
:: variability
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| variable {adj}
|
:: variable
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| variable {f}
|
:: variable
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| variable de classe {f} [object-oriented]
|
:: class variable
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| variablement {adv}
|
:: variably
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| variance {f}
|
:: variance
|
| variant {adj}
|
:: varied, which varies; variable
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| variante {f}
|
:: variant
|
| variateur {m}
|
:: variator
|
| variation {f}
|
:: variation
|
| variationnel {adj} [maths]
|
:: variational
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| varice {f}
|
:: varicose vein
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| varicelle {f}
|
:: chicken pox (disease)
|
| varié {adj}
|
:: varied, various, diverse
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| varier {v}
|
:: to vary
|
| variétal {adj}
|
:: varietal
|
| variété {f}
|
:: variety
|
| variété {f}
|
:: type, genre
|
| variole {f} [pathology]
|
:: smallpox
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| variolique {adj}
|
:: variolous, smallpox (attributive)
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| variqueux {adj}
|
:: varicose
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| Varsovie {prop}
|
:: Varsovie (capital city)
|
| varsovien {adj}
|
:: Varsovian (from or of Warsaw)
|
| Varsovien {m}
|
:: Varsovian (someone from Warsaw)
|
| Varsovienne {f}
|
:: feminine noun of Varsovien
|
| va savoir {interj} [colloquial]
|
:: who knows? go figure
|
| va savoir pourquoi {interj} [colloquial]
|
:: go figure!
|
| vasculaire {adj}
|
:: vascular
|
| vascularisé {adj}
|
:: vascularized
|
| vasculariser {v}
|
:: To vascularize
|
| vascularité {f}
|
:: vascularity
|
| vasculotrope {adj}
|
:: vasculotropic
|
| vase {f}
|
:: silt, mud
|
| vase {m}
|
:: vase
|
| vase communicant {m} [chiefly in the plural]
|
:: communicating vessel
|
| vasectomie {f}
|
:: vasectomy (male sterilization)
|
| vaseline {f}
|
:: vaseline
|
| vaseux {adj}
|
:: muddy
|
| vaseux {adj} [colloquial]
|
:: woolly (explanation, definition etc.)
|
| vasière {f}
|
:: mudflat
|
| vasistas {m}
|
:: transom window (window above a door or another window)
|
| vasistas {m}
|
:: fortochka (small ventilation window)
|
| vasodilatateur {adj} [biochemistry]
|
:: vasodilatory
|
| vasodilatateur {m} [biochemistry]
|
:: vasodilator
|
| vasointestinal {adj} [anatomy]
|
:: vasointestinal
|
| vasque {f}
|
:: basin, bowl
|
| vassal {adj}
|
:: vassal
|
| vassal {m}
|
:: a vassal
|
| vassale {f}
|
:: feminine noun of vassal
|
| vassalique {adj}
|
:: vassal (attributive)
|
| vassaliser {v}
|
:: to vassal
|
| vassalité {f}
|
:: vassalage
|
| vassalité {f}
|
:: subjugation
|
| vasselage {m}
|
:: vassalage
|
| vaste {adj}
|
:: vast
|
| vastement {adv}
|
:: greatly; much
|
| VASTF {n} [initialism]
|
:: "version anglais sous-titres français" — English version with French subtitles (EVFST); a film dubbed in English, and subtitled in French
|
| vas-y {phrase} [informal, singular]
|
:: go ahead; go on
|
| va te faire foutre {interj} [vulgar]
|
:: go get fucked!; go fuck yourself!; get your butt out of here!; fuck you!; fuck off!
|
| va-t-en-guerre {m} [pejorative]
|
:: warmonger, hawk
|
| vatican {adj}
|
:: Vatican
|
| vaticane {adj}
|
:: in, of or relating to, the Vatican (papal palace and sovereign city state enclaved in Rome)
|
| vaticane {adj} [metonymy]
|
:: of or relating to the Holy See, to the papacy
|
| vaticination {f}
|
:: vaticination
|
| vatrouchka {f}
|
:: vatrushka
|
| Vaucluse {prop} {m}
|
:: Vaucluse (department)
|
| vauclusien {adj}
|
:: Of or from Vaucluse
|
| Vauclusien {m}
|
:: Native or resident of Vaucluse
|
| Vauclusienne {f}
|
:: feminine noun of Vauclusien
|
| Vaud {prop}
|
:: Vaud (canton)
|
| vaudais {adj}
|
:: Of or from Vaulx-en-Velin
|
| vaudeville {m}
|
:: vaudeville
|
| vaudevilliste {m}
|
:: A vaudeville artist
|
| vaudois {adj} [geography]
|
:: of or from Vaud (canton in Switzerland)
|
| vaudois {adj} [Christianity]
|
:: Waldensian; related to the doctrine of Peter Valdo
|
| vaudou {m}
|
:: voodoo (African and Afro-Caribbean religion)
|
| vaudou {adj}
|
:: voodoo (attributive)
|
| vaurien {m}
|
:: good-for-nothing, a person regarded as useless or worthless
|
| vautour {m}
|
:: vulture
|
| vautour {m} [pejorative, figuratively]
|
:: shark, vulture
|
| vautour moine {m}
|
:: The Eurasian black vulture
|
| vautrer {vt} [rare]
|
:: to wallow (to roll one's body, or a part of it, in the mud or something of similar texture)
|
| vautrer {vr}
|
:: to sprawl; to wallow
|
| vautrer {vr} [figuratively]
|
:: to wallow
|
| vautrer {vr} [familiar]
|
:: to tumble heavily on the ground
|
| vautrer {vr} [familiar]
|
:: to fail
|
| vauvert {m}
|
:: only used in au diable-vauvert
|
| vavasseur {m} [history]
|
:: vavasour, subvassal
|
| VBCI {m}
|
:: IFV (infantry fighting vehicle) abbreviation of véhicule blindé de combat d'infanterie
|
| VBL {m} [military]
|
:: LAV (light armoured vehicle); initialism of véhicule blindé léger
|
| Vc. {n} [music]
|
:: abbreviation of violoncelle
|
| VdO {prop} [sports]
|
:: abbreviation of Val-d'Or
|
| VDO {prop} [sports]
|
:: abbreviation of Val-d'Or
|
| VDQS {m}
|
:: initialism of vin délimité de qualité supérieure
|
| ve {n}
|
:: abbreviation of veuve
|
| vé {m}
|
:: letter: v
|
| vé {m}
|
:: calf
|
| vé {interj} [Marseille]
|
:: look!
|
| veau {m} [animal]
|
:: calf
|
| veau {m}
|
:: veal
|
| veau d'or {m}
|
:: golden calf
|
| veau d'or {m} [figuratively]
|
:: golden calf (money, wealth)
|
| vecteur {adj}
|
:: disease-carrying
|
| vecteur {m}
|
:: disease-carrier, vector
|
| vecteur {m} [mathematics]
|
:: vector (a directed quantity)
|
| vecteur propre {f} [linear algebra]
|
:: eigenvector
|
| vectoriel {adj}
|
:: vectorial (of or pertaining to a vector)
|
| vectoriellement {adv}
|
:: vectorially
|
| vectorisation {f}
|
:: vectorization/vectorisation
|
| vectoriser {v}
|
:: to vectorize
|
| vécu {m}
|
:: experience (what one experiences)
|
| vécu {m}
|
:: inner life
|
| véda {m}
|
:: Veda
|
| vedettariat {m}
|
:: stardom
|
| vedette {f}
|
:: star (celebrity)
|
| vedette {f} [watercraft]
|
:: flagship
|
| vedette {f} [lexicography]
|
:: headword (word used as the title of a section)
|
| vedette {f} [military, historical]
|
:: vedette (sentry)
|
| védique {adj}
|
:: Vedic
|
| védisme {m}
|
:: Vedism (Vedic religion and culture)
|
| végé {mf} [colloquial]
|
:: veggie (vegetarian person)
|
| végé {adj} [colloquial]
|
:: veggie (vegetarian)
|
| Végèce {prop} {m}
|
:: Vegetius
|
| végépâté {m}
|
:: vegepate (veggie pâté / vegan pate / vegetarian paté)
|
| végétal {m}
|
:: Plant
|
| végétal {adj}
|
:: Of or relating to plants
|
| végétalien {adj}
|
:: vegan
|
| végétalien {m}
|
:: vegan
|
| végétalienne {f}
|
:: feminine noun of végétalien; a female vegan
|
| végétalisation {f}
|
:: revegetation
|
| végétalisé {adj}
|
:: Covered with plants
|
| végétaliser {v}
|
:: To vegetate
|
| végétalisme {m}
|
:: veganism
|
| végétarien {adj}
|
:: vegetarian (of a person, not eating animal flesh)
|
| végétarien {adj}
|
:: vegetarian (of a food, not containing animal flesh)
|
| végétarien {m}
|
:: vegetarian (person who or animal that does not eat any animal flesh)
|
| végétarienne {f}
|
:: feminine noun of végétarien; a female vegetarian
|
| végétarisme {m}
|
:: vegetarianism
|
| végétatif {adj}
|
:: vegetative
|
| végétation {f}
|
:: vegetation
|
| végéter {vi}
|
:: to vegetate
|
| véhémence {f}
|
:: vehemence
|
| véhément {adj}
|
:: vehement
|
| véhémentement {adv}
|
:: vehemently
|
| véhiculage {m}
|
:: transportation, conveyance
|
| véhiculaire {adj}
|
:: vehicular
|
| véhicule {m}
|
:: vehicle
|
| véhicule {m} [Buddhism]
|
:: vehicle
|
| véhicule de dépannage {m}
|
:: synonym of dépanneuse (tow truck)
|
| véhicule hybride rechargeable {m}
|
:: plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV)
|
| véhiculer {v}
|
:: to transport in a vehicle, to carry
|
| véhiculer {v} [figurative]
|
:: to promote, to convey (a message), to carry
|
| véhicule utilitaire sport {m}
|
:: sport utility vehicle
|
| veillant {adj}
|
:: watching, vigilant
|
| veille {f}
|
:: the day before, the eve
|
| veille {f}
|
:: wakefulness
|
| veille {f}
|
:: (night) watch, vigil
|
| veillée {f}
|
:: gathering (in the evening)
|
| veillée {f}
|
:: vigil
|
| veiller {vi}
|
:: To stay up, sit up
|
| veiller {vi}
|
:: To keep guard, keep watch
|
| veiller {vi}
|
:: To look after, see to ( + à); see to it that ( + à ce que)
|
| veiller {vi}
|
:: To watch over (someone) ( + sur)
|
| veiller {vt}
|
:: To keep watch over a sick person at night; to do a death wake for
|
| veiller {vi} [Quebec]
|
:: To go out in the evening, e.g. in parties, clubs, bars..
|
| veiller au grain {v} [literal]
|
:: to be on guard for a sudden, violent gust of wind
|
| veiller au grain {v} [figurative]
|
:: to keep an eye on things, to look out for squalls, to keep a weather eye open
|
| veilleur {m}
|
:: watchman
|
| veilleuse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of veilleur
|
| veilleuse {f}
|
:: night light
|
| veilleuse {f}
|
:: sidelight (on a car)
|
| veilleuse {f}
|
:: pilot light
|
| veinage {m}
|
:: veining (decorative pattern on cut wood)
|
| veinard {m} [colloquial]
|
:: lucky bastard, lucky devil, lucky beggar, jammy Arab
|
| veinard {adj} [colloquial]
|
:: lucky, jammy, flukey
|
| veine {f} [anatomy]
|
:: vein
|
| veine {f} [geology]
|
:: vein, seam
|
| veine {f} [colloquial]
|
:: luck
|
| veiner {v}
|
:: to vein (streak with marks similar to veins)
|
| veineux {adj}
|
:: venous, of or relating to veins; having numerous veins
|
| vêlage {m}
|
:: calving (all senses)
|
| vélaire {adj} [phonetics, phonology]
|
:: velar
|
| vélar {m}
|
:: a wallflower (member of the genus Erysimum)
|
| vélarisation {f} [linguistics]
|
:: velarization
|
| vélasquézien {adj}
|
:: Velazquezian
|
| velcro {m}
|
:: Velcro
|
| velcroter {v}
|
:: to velcro
|
| vêler {v}
|
:: to calve (all senses)
|
| vélin {m}
|
:: vellum
|
| véliplanchiste {mf}
|
:: windsurfer
|
| velle {f}
|
:: female cow calf
|
| velléitaire {adj}
|
:: irresolute, weak-willed, indecisive
|
| velléité {f}
|
:: weak will
|
| velléité {f}
|
:: indecisiveness
|
| vélo {m} [usually, colloquial]
|
:: bike, bicycle, cycle
|
| vélo à neige {m}
|
:: fatbike (a bicycle with very wide fat tires to traverse on snow and ice)
|
| vélo à neige {m}
|
:: snowbike (a mountain bike with its front wheel replaced by a ski)
|
| vélo à neige {m}
|
:: skibike (a bicycle frame with both wheels replaced by skis, which may also lack a seat, having the rider stand on the rear ski)
|
| vélo à pneus surdimensionnés {m}
|
:: a fatbike; synonym of fat bike (a bike for riding on trails of ice and snow)
|
| vélo-café {m}
|
:: a type of food cart mobile vending point, a tricycle-based mobile coffee cart cafe, similar to an ice cream cart tricycle, with the cart hosting an espresso machine, coffee maker, coffee grinder, and supplies
|
| véloce {adj}
|
:: swift
|
| vélocement {adv}
|
:: swiftly
|
| vélocimétrique {adj}
|
:: velocimetric
|
| vélocipède {m}
|
:: a velocipede
|
| vélocipède {m}
|
:: bicycles in general
|
| vélocipédique {adj}
|
:: cyclist or cycling (attributive)
|
| vélocité {f}
|
:: velocity
|
| vélo couché {m}
|
:: recumbent (special type of bicycle)
|
| vélodrome {m}
|
:: velodrome
|
| vélomoteur {m}
|
:: moped
|
| vélo-pupitre {m}
|
:: a combination of stationary bike and student desk; a student desk with a set of bicycle pedals attached, to allow stationary biking while reading, writing and in-classroom sit-down learning
|
| véloroute {f}
|
:: cycle path
|
| vélorue {f}
|
:: A shared-use road for bicycles and automobiles, on which the bikes may range over the entire vehicular use surface, and where priority is given to cyclists
|
| vélorution {f}
|
:: activism to promote cycling as an alternative mode of transport
|
| véloski {m}
|
:: skibob
|
| vélotaf {m} [slang, cycling]
|
:: bike commuting
|
| vélotaff {m} [slang, cycling]
|
:: bike commuting
|
| vélo-taxi {m}
|
:: alternative spelling of vélotaxi
|
| vélotaxi {m}
|
:: A cycle rickshaw
|
| vélo tout terrain {m}
|
:: mountain bike
|
| vélo tout-terrain {m}
|
:: alternative spelling of vélo tout terrain
|
| velours {m}
|
:: velvet
|
| velours côtelé {m}
|
:: corduroy
|
| velours d'Utrecht {m}
|
:: Utrecht velvet
|
| velouté {adj}
|
:: velvety
|
| velouté {adj}
|
:: smooth
|
| velouté {m}
|
:: smoothness, softness
|
| velouté {m} [cooking]
|
:: a velouté
|
| velouter {v}
|
:: to give (something) a velvety finish
|
| velouter {v}
|
:: to soften, make smooth
|
| velouteux {adj}
|
:: velvety
|
| velu {adj}
|
:: hairy
|
| velu {adj} [botany]
|
:: villous
|
| vélux {m}
|
:: skylight, roof window, Velux window
|
| venaison {f}
|
:: venison (meat)
|
| vénal {adj} [of a person, pejorative]
|
:: Available for a price; venal
|
| vénalement {adv}
|
:: venally
|
| vénalité {f}
|
:: venality
|
| venant {adj}
|
:: coming
|
| venant {m}
|
:: comer
|
| vendange {f}
|
:: vintage (yield of grapes for wine-making)
|
| vendange {f} [by extension]
|
:: grapes harvested for wine-making
|
| vendange {f} [chiefly plural]
|
:: grape harvesting season
|
| vendanger {v}
|
:: to vintage
|
| vendangeur {m}
|
:: vintager (grape picker/harvester)
|
| vendangeuse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of vendangeur
|
| Vendée {prop} {f}
|
:: Vendée (department)
|
| Vendée {prop} {f}
|
:: Vendée (river)
|
| vendéen {adj}
|
:: Vendean
|
| Vendéen {m}
|
:: Someone from Vendée
|
| vendémiaire {m} [historical]
|
:: Vendémiaire (the first month of the French Republican Calendar)
|
| vendetta {f}
|
:: vendetta
|
| vendeur {adj}
|
:: sellable; able to sell a lot
|
| vendeur {m}
|
:: salesman
|
| vendeur {m}
|
:: seller, vendor
|
| vendeuse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of vendeur
|
| Vendôme {prop}
|
:: A town in the Loir-et-Cher department of the Centre-Val de Loire region of France
|
| vendômois {adj}
|
:: Of or from Vendôme
|
| Vendômois {m}
|
:: Native or inhabitant of Vendôme
|
| Vendômoise {f}
|
:: feminine noun of Vendômois
|
| vendre {vt}
|
:: to sell
|
| vendre {v} [reflexive, as se vendre]
|
:: to sell
|
| vendre {vt}
|
:: to sell out (betray)
|
| vendredi {m}
|
:: Friday
|
| vendredi fou {m}
|
:: Black Friday
|
| vendredi noir {m}
|
:: Black Friday synonym of vendredi fou
|
| vendredi saint {prop} {m}
|
:: Good Friday
|
| vendre la mèche {v} [colloquial]
|
:: to spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag
|
| vendre père et mère {v} [pejorative, figuratively]
|
:: to sell one's own grandmother (used to say that one is ready to do anything)
|
| vendre son âme au diable {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to sell one's soul to the devil
|
| vendu {adj}
|
:: corrupt
|
| venelle {f}
|
:: alley
|
| vénéneux {adj}
|
:: venomous
|
| vénérable {adj}
|
:: venerable
|
| vénérablement {adv}
|
:: venerably
|
| vénération {f}
|
:: veneration
|
| vénère {adj} [slang]
|
:: pissed off
|
| vénérer {v}
|
:: to worship; to venerate
|
| vénerie {f} [hunting]
|
:: venery
|
| vènerie {f}
|
:: alternative spelling of vénerie
|
| vénérien {adj}
|
:: venereal
|
| vénète {adj}
|
:: Venetic
|
| Vénétie {prop} {f}
|
:: Vénétie (region)
|
| veneur {m}
|
:: hunter, huntsman (with hounds)
|
| Venezuela {prop} {m}
|
:: Venezuela (country)
|
| vénézuélien {adj}
|
:: Venezuelan
|
| Vénézuélien {m}
|
:: Venezuelan (person)
|
| Vénézuélienne {f}
|
:: feminine noun of Vénézuélien
|
| vengeance {f}
|
:: revenge, vengeance
|
| venger {v}
|
:: to avenge, to take revenge (upon)
|
| vengeresse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of vengeur
|
| vengeur {adj}
|
:: vengeful
|
| vengeur {m}
|
:: avenger
|
| véniel {adj}
|
:: venial, pardonable
|
| véniellement {adv}
|
:: venially
|
| venimeusement {adv}
|
:: venomously, poisonously
|
| venimeux {adj}
|
:: poisonous, venomous
|
| venimosité {f}
|
:: venomousness
|
| venin {m}
|
:: venom (poison)
|
| venin {m} [figuratively]
|
:: venom (feeling of malign or contempt)
|
| venir {vi}
|
:: To come (to move from one place to another that is nearer the speaker)
|
| venir à bout {v} [de]
|
:: to overcome, to manage to finish
|
| venir à Canossa {v}
|
:: alternative form of aller à Canossa
|
| venir à l'esprit {v}
|
:: to spring to mind, to come to mind, to cross someone's mind
|
| venir au monde {v} [idiomatic]
|
:: to be born
|
| venir de {v}
|
:: to come from, to be from, to originate from
|
| venir de {v}
|
:: (followed by an infinitive) to have just done
|
| venir du cœur {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to come straight from the heart
|
| venir en âge {phrase} [Louisiana French, Cajun French]
|
:: to turn twenty-one years of age
|
| Venise {prop}
|
:: Venise (capital city)
|
| Venise {prop}
|
:: Venise (metropolitan city)
|
| vénitien {adj}
|
:: Venetian (relating to Venice)
|
| vénitien {m}
|
:: Venetian (language)
|
| Vénitien {m}
|
:: Venetian person
|
| vénitienne {f}
|
:: In french vénitienne means a Venetian style shoe
|
| vénitienne {f}
|
:: Italian cloth (textile - "tissage")
|
| Vénitienne {f}
|
:: feminine noun of Vénitien
|
| vent {m}
|
:: Atmospheric wind
|
| vent {m} [euphemistic]
|
:: A flatulence
|
| vent {m} [uncountable]
|
:: Empty words, hot air
|
| ventail {m}
|
:: alternative form of vantail
|
| vent debout {adj} [contre]
|
:: strongly opposed to
|
| vent dominant {m} [climatology]
|
:: prevailing wind
|
| vente {f}
|
:: sale
|
| venté {adj}
|
:: windy
|
| vente aux enchères {f}
|
:: auction (public sales event)
|
| vente de garage {f} [Quebec]
|
:: garage sale
|
| vente pyramidale {f} [economics]
|
:: pyramid scheme
|
| venter {v} [impersonal, weather]
|
:: To be windy, to blow
|
| venter à décorner les bœufs {v} [simile, impersonal, weather]
|
:: To be extremely windy
|
| venter à écorner les bœufs {v}
|
:: alternative form of venter à décorner les bœufs
|
| venteux {adj}
|
:: windy (charactized by strong winds)
|
| ventilateur {m}
|
:: ventilator, fan
|
| ventilateur {m}
|
:: pedestal fan
|
| ventilation {f}
|
:: ventilation: replacement of stale or noxious air with fresh
|
| ventilation {f}
|
:: ventilation: mechanical system used to circulate and replace air
|
| ventilation {f}
|
:: repartition
|
| ventilatoire {adj}
|
:: breathing (attributive)
|
| ventiler {v}
|
:: to ventilate
|
| ventiler {v}
|
:: [dated] to discuss, debate
|
| ventiler {v}
|
:: [dated] to evaluate, estimate
|
| ventiler {v}
|
:: to break down (a total into parts)
|
| ventilo {m} [colloquial]
|
:: fan (machine used for circulating air)
|
| vent interstellaire {m}
|
:: solar wind
|
| ventôse {m} [historical]
|
:: Ventôse (the sixth month of the French Republican Calendar)
|
| ventouse {f}
|
:: plunger
|
| ventouse {f}
|
:: suction cup
|
| ventouse {f}
|
:: cup for fire cupping
|
| ventouse {f}
|
:: ventouse
|
| ventouse {f} [biology]
|
:: sucker
|
| ventouse {f} [slang]
|
:: sucker (a person who sucks; a general term of disparagement)
|
| ventral {adj}
|
:: ventral
|
| ventre {m} [anatomy]
|
:: belly; stomach
|
| ventre {m} [physics]
|
:: antinode
|
| ventre à pattes {m} [figuratively]
|
:: walking stomach, stomach on legs (person who is hungry all the time)
|
| ventre mou {m}
|
:: weakness, weak spot, soft underbelly
|
| ventre sur pattes {m} [figuratively]
|
:: walking stomach, stomach on legs (person who is hungry all the time)
|
| ventriculaire {adj} [anatomy, physiology, medicine]
|
:: ventricular
|
| ventricule {m}
|
:: ventricle
|
| ventriculographie {f}
|
:: ventriculography
|
| ventrier {adj} [anatomy]
|
:: abdominal
|
| ventriloque {mf}
|
:: ventriloquist
|
| ventripotent {adj}
|
:: ventripotent
|
| ventru {adj} [of a man]
|
:: potbellied, paunchy
|
| ventru {adj} [of an object]
|
:: rounded, bulging
|
| vent solaire {m} [astronomy]
|
:: solar wind
|
| vent stellaire {m} [astronomy]
|
:: stellar wind
|
| vent travers {m} [nautical]
|
:: beam reach
|
| venue {f}
|
:: coming, arrival
|
| Vénus {prop} {f}
|
:: Venus (Roman goddess)
|
| Vénus {prop} {f}
|
:: Venus (planet)
|
| vénusien {adj}
|
:: Venusian (relating to Venus)
|
| vépéciste {m}
|
:: mail-order company; person/firm selling remotely
|
| vêpre {m} [archaic, humorous]
|
:: The evening
|
| vêprée {f} [outdated]
|
:: The end of the afternoon; evening
|
| vêpres {fp}
|
:: vespers
|
| vêpres {fp}
|
:: evensong
|
| vepse {m}
|
:: Veps (Finno-Ugric language)
|
| ver {m}
|
:: worm
|
| véracité {f}
|
:: veracity
|
| véracité {f}
|
:: authenticity
|
| véraison {f} [regional, South of France]
|
:: veraison
|
| véranda {f}
|
:: veranda
|
| ver à soie {m}
|
:: silkworm
|
| vératrine {f}
|
:: veratrin
|
| verbal {adj}
|
:: verbal
|
| verbalement {adv}
|
:: verbally; orally
|
| verbalisation {f}
|
:: verbalization, verbalisation
|
| verbaliser {vt}
|
:: to verbalize, to put into words (express using speech)
|
| verbaliser {v} [law]
|
:: to make a statement (dresser un procès-verbal)
|
| verbaliser {vt} [law]
|
:: to give somebody a ticket, a fine; to write up somebody
|
| verbatim {m}
|
:: verbatim
|
| verbatim {adv}
|
:: verbatim
|
| verbe {m}
|
:: speech
|
| verbe {m}
|
:: tone of voice
|
| verbe {m}
|
:: way of speaking
|
| verbe {m} [grammar]
|
:: verb
|
| verbe auxiliaire {m} [grammar]
|
:: auxiliary verb
|
| verbe intransitif {m}
|
:: intransitive verb (action verb not taking a direct object)
|
| verbe pronominal {m}
|
:: pronominal verb
|
| verbe transitif {m}
|
:: transitive verb (a verb that is accompanied by a direct object)
|
| verbeusement {adv}
|
:: verbosely
|
| verbeux {adj}
|
:: verbose
|
| verbiage {m}
|
:: verbiage
|
| verbicruciste {m}
|
:: cruciverbalist; constructor of crossword puzzles
|
| verbosité {f}
|
:: verbosity
|
| Vercingétorix {prop} {m}
|
:: Vercingetorix
|
| Vercors {prop}
|
:: A massif in the Prealps
|
| vercouline {f}
|
:: A form of raclette (fondue) from the Vercors massif
|
| vercussien {adj}
|
:: Of or from Vercors
|
| verdâtre {adj}
|
:: greeny, greenish
|
| verdet {m}
|
:: verdigris
|
| ver de terre {m}
|
:: earthworm
|
| verdeur {f}
|
:: greenness
|
| verdeur {f}
|
:: tartness, sharpness; acidity (of wine)
|
| verdeur {f}
|
:: vitality
|
| verdiau {m}
|
:: purple osier (Salix purpurea)
|
| verdict {m}
|
:: verdict
|
| verdien {adj}
|
:: Verdian
|
| verdir {v}
|
:: to turn green
|
| verdissant {adj}
|
:: greening
|
| verdissement {m}
|
:: the act of turning green
|
| verdoyant {adj}
|
:: verdant
|
| verdoyer {v}
|
:: to be/become verdant, green
|
| Verdun {prop}
|
:: Verdun
|
| verdunois {adj}
|
:: of or pertaining to Verdun
|
| verdure {f}
|
:: verdure, greenness
|
| vérécondie {f} [obsolete]
|
:: restraint, reserve, modesty
|
| véreux {adj}
|
:: maggoty, worm-eaten
|
| véreux {adj}
|
:: (of lawyer, public official etc.) bent, dodgy, crooked, sheisty
|
| verge {f}
|
:: rod
|
| verge {f}
|
:: penis (male sexual organ)
|
| verge {f} [Canada]
|
:: yard
|
| vergé {adj}
|
:: ribbed, veined
|
| vergé {adj}
|
:: laid (paper)
|
| vergé {adj}
|
:: streaky (colour)
|
| vergée {f}
|
:: rood (quarter of an acre)
|
| verger {m}
|
:: orchard
|
| vergerette {f}
|
:: fleabane
|
| vergerolle {f}
|
:: synonym of vergerette
|
| vergeron {m}
|
:: warbler (bird)
|
| vergette {f} [literally]
|
:: A small (wooden) rod
|
| vergette {f}
|
:: A clothes-brush
|
| vergette {f} [heraldiccharge]
|
:: A pale at least fivefold thinner then usual
|
| vergeture {f} [chiefly in the plural]
|
:: stretch mark
|
| vergeure {f} [papermaking]
|
:: Brass wire attached to laid paper
|
| vergeure {f}
|
:: (By extension) the lines caused by this wire
|
| vergeüre {f}
|
:: alternative spelling of vergeure
|
| verglaçant {adj}
|
:: freezing
|
| verglaçante {adj}
|
:: freezing (of rain or snow)
|
| verglacé {adj}
|
:: icy (of a surface)
|
| verglas {m}
|
:: black ice
|
| vergne {m}
|
:: alder (tree)
|
| vergogne {f} [archaic or literary]
|
:: shame (feeling)
|
| vergogne {f} [archaic or literary]
|
:: restraint, moderation
|
| vergogne {f} [archaic or literary]
|
:: modesty, decency
|
| vergue {f} [nautical]
|
:: yard [of sailing ship]
|
| véridique {adj}
|
:: veracious, truthful; true, for real
|
| véridiquement {adv}
|
:: veraciously, truthfully
|
| vérifiabilité {f}
|
:: verifiability
|
| vérifiable {adj}
|
:: verifiable (able to be verified or confirmed)
|
| vérificateur {m}
|
:: checker, verifier
|
| vérification {f}
|
:: verification
|
| vérificatrice {f}
|
:: feminine noun of vérificateur
|
| vérifier {v}
|
:: to verify
|
| vérin {m}
|
:: cylinder (containing a piston)
|
| verisimilitude {f}
|
:: verisimilitude
|
| véritable {adj}
|
:: veritable
|
| véritablement {adv}
|
:: really, truly
|
| vérité {f}
|
:: truth
|
| verjus {m}
|
:: verjuice
|
| verjus {m} [colloquial]
|
:: wine which is too green
|
| verlan {m}
|
:: verlan (type of backslang used in French)
|
| verlaniser {v}
|
:: to verlanize, verlanise
|
| ver luisant {m}
|
:: firefly
|
| ver luisant {m}
|
:: glowworm
|
| vermeil {adj}
|
:: bright red; vermilion
|
| vermeil {adj} [of mouth, lips, etc.]
|
:: ruby; cherry
|
| vermeil {adj}
|
:: rosy
|
| vermeil {m}
|
:: vermeil (gold-plated silver with a reddish hue)
|
| Vermette {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| vermicelle {m}
|
:: vermicelli
|
| vermiculite {f} [mineral]
|
:: vermiculite
|
| vermifuge {adj} [medicine]
|
:: vermifuge
|
| vermifuge {m} [medicine]
|
:: vermifuge
|
| vermillon {m}
|
:: cinnabar
|
| vermillon {m}
|
:: vermilion
|
| vermine {f}
|
:: vermin (destructive creatures)
|
| vermine {f}
|
:: vermin (a contemptible person)
|
| vermineux {adj}
|
:: verminous
|
| vermisseau {m}
|
:: small earthworm, grub
|
| vermivore {m}
|
:: vermivore
|
| vermivore {adj}
|
:: vermivorous
|
| vermoudre {vr}
|
:: alternative form of vermouler.
|
| vermouler {vr}
|
:: to grow worm-eaten
|
| vermoulu {adj}
|
:: riddled with woodworm, worm-eaten
|
| vermoulu {adj} [figuratively]
|
:: moth-eaten
|
| vernaculaire {adj}
|
:: vernacular
|
| vernaculaire {m}
|
:: vernacular
|
| Verne {prop}
|
:: Verne; surname
|
| verni {adj}
|
:: varnished, covered by varnish
|
| verni {adj}
|
:: lucky
|
| vernir {v}
|
:: to varnish
|
| vernis {m}
|
:: varnish
|
| vernis {m}
|
:: nail polish
|
| vernis {m}
|
:: veneer
|
| vernis à ongles {m}
|
:: nail polish
|
| vernissage {m}
|
:: varnishing, glazing
|
| vernissage {m}
|
:: a private viewing at a gallery
|
| vernissé {adj}
|
:: glazed (pottery)
|
| vernissé {adj}
|
:: glossy
|
| vernisser {vt}
|
:: to glaze (pottery)
|
| Véro {prop} {f}
|
:: given name
|
| vérole {f}
|
:: syphilis; pox
|
| vérolé {adj}
|
:: syphilitic
|
| vérolé {adj}
|
:: pockmarked
|
| véronais {adj}
|
:: Veronese
|
| Véronais {m}
|
:: of or from Verona
|
| Véronaise {f}
|
:: feminine singular of Véronais
|
| Vérone {prop} {f}
|
:: Vérone (city)
|
| Vérone {prop} {f}
|
:: Verona (province)
|
| véronique {f} [Roman Catholicism]
|
:: veronica (cloth)
|
| véronique {f} [bullfighting]
|
:: veronica (movement of the cape)
|
| véronique {f} [botany]
|
:: veronica (flower)
|
| Véronique {prop} {f}
|
:: given name
|
| verrat {m}
|
:: boar (male pig)
|
| verre {m} [usually, uncountable]
|
:: glass (substance)
|
| verre {m}
|
:: symbol of fragility
|
| verre {m}
|
:: symbol of transparency
|
| verre {m} [countable]
|
:: Object in this substance
|
| verre {m} [optics]
|
:: glass
|
| verre {m}
|
:: lens
|
| verre {m}
|
:: glass (drinking vessel)
|
| verre {m}
|
:: its content
|
| verre à shot {m}
|
:: shot glass
|
| verrer {v}
|
:: To scour
|
| verrerie {f}
|
:: glassworks
|
| verrerie {f}
|
:: glassware
|
| verrier {m}
|
:: glassmaker; glassblower
|
| verrier {adj}
|
:: glass (attributive)
|
| verrière {f}
|
:: A glass skylight
|
| verrière {f}
|
:: feminine noun of verrier
|
| verrine {f}
|
:: verrine
|
| verroterie {f}
|
:: glass jewellery
|
| verrou {m} [on a door]
|
:: bolt
|
| verrou {m} [on a gun]
|
:: lock
|
| verrou {m} [computer science]
|
:: lock, mutex
|
| verrouillable {adj}
|
:: lockable
|
| verrouillage {m}
|
:: locking (action of locking something)
|
| verrouiller {v}
|
:: to bolt, to bolt up (lock with a bolt)
|
| verrouiller {v}
|
:: to lock (to prevent something ,e.g. a button or keypad, from performing its task)
|
| verrue {f}
|
:: wart, verruca
|
| vers {prep}
|
:: towards
|
| vers {prep}
|
:: to
|
| vers {prep}
|
:: around, circa (with a date or time)
|
| vers {m}
|
:: verse
|
| versaillais {adj}
|
:: Of or from Versailles
|
| versaillais {adj} [politics]
|
:: that opposed the commune of 1871
|
| Versailles {prop} {fp}
|
:: Versailles (municipality/and/suburb)
|
| Versailles {prop} {fp} [by ellipsis]
|
:: Versailles (the Palace of Versailles)
|
| versant {m}
|
:: slope, side
|
| versatile {adj}
|
:: versatile; easily changeable
|
| versatile {adj}
|
:: indecisive
|
| versatilité {f}
|
:: versatility
|
| versatilité {f}
|
:: fickleness
|
| versé {adj} [always followed by dans]
|
:: versed, knowledgeable (in something), conversant (with something)
|
| verseau {m} [geography]
|
:: An uncovered slope above an entablature used to carry away water
|
| Verseau {prop} {m} [astronomy]
|
:: The stellar constellation Aquarius
|
| Verseau {prop} {m} [astrology]
|
:: The zodiac sign Aquarius
|
| versement {m} [finance]
|
:: payment, especially an electronic transaction
|
| verser {vt}
|
:: to pour
|
| verser {vt}
|
:: to pay, to put money into a fund
|
| verser {vi} [of a vehicle]
|
:: to overturn (turn over, capsize)
|
| verset {m}
|
:: diminutive of vers
|
| verset {m}
|
:: verse (of religious text)
|
| verseur {m}
|
:: pourer
|
| verseur {m}
|
:: payer
|
| verseur {adj}
|
:: pouring
|
| versification {f}
|
:: versification
|
| versifier {v}
|
:: to versify
|
| version {f}
|
:: version; model (a specific state, variant, or form of something)
|
| version {f}
|
:: a translation exercise
|
| version {f}
|
:: a translation
|
| version {f}
|
:: a specific manner of reporting a fact or event
|
| version {f} [medicine]
|
:: an obstetric maneuver to change the fetus' position inside the uterus so as to facilitate childbirth
|
| vers libre {m}
|
:: free verse
|
| verso {m}
|
:: verso, reverse, back, overleaf (of a page)
|
| verso {m} [printing]
|
:: left-hand page
|
| versoir {m}
|
:: moldboard
|
| Verstappen {prop}
|
:: Verstappen; surname
|
| verste {f}
|
:: "(Russian meas.) verst"
|
| vert {m}
|
:: green
|
| vert {adj}
|
:: green
|
| vert-de-gris {m}
|
:: verdigris (blue-green patina on copper and copper alloys)
|
| vert de jalousie {adj}
|
:: green with envy
|
| vert de peur {adj}
|
:: scared to death, white as a sheet, terrified
|
| vert de rage {adj}
|
:: livid, furious, beside oneself with anger
|
| vertébral {adj}
|
:: vertebral
|
| vertébré {m}
|
:: vertebrate
|
| vertèbre {f}
|
:: vertebra
|
| vertèbre cervicale {f}
|
:: cervical vertebra
|
| vertement {adv}
|
:: strongly, eagerly
|
| vertement {adv}
|
:: harshly, sharply
|
| vert-galant {m}
|
:: "A brisk spark".
|
| vertical {adj}
|
:: vertical
|
| verticalement {adv}
|
:: vertically (in a vertical direction or position)
|
| verticalité {f}
|
:: verticality, verticalness
|
| verticité {f}
|
:: verticity
|
| vertige {m}
|
:: dizziness, vertigo
|
| vertigineusement {adv}
|
:: vertiginously
|
| vertigineusement {adv}
|
:: dizzily
|
| vertigineux {adj}
|
:: vertiginous
|
| vertigineux {adj}
|
:: dizzy
|
| vert pomme {adj}
|
:: apple-green
|
| vertu {f}
|
:: virtue
|
| vertueusement {adv}
|
:: virtuously
|
| vertueux {adj}
|
:: virtuous
|
| vertugadin {m}
|
:: farthingale
|
| vérumontanum {m} [anatomy]
|
:: verumontanum
|
| verve {f}
|
:: eloquence
|
| verve {f}
|
:: verve, brio
|
| verveine {f} [plant]
|
:: vervain, verbena
|
| verveine {f}
|
:: verbena tea; vervain liqueur
|
| Verville {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| vésanie {f}
|
:: vesania
|
| vésanique {adj}
|
:: vesanic
|
| vesce {f}
|
:: vetch
|
| vésical {adj} [anatomy]
|
:: vesical
|
| vésicant {adj}
|
:: vesicant
|
| vésiculaire {adj}
|
:: vesicular(being, having, or resembling a vesicle or vesicles)
|
| vésicule {f}
|
:: bladder (A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.)
|
| vésicule biliaire {f}
|
:: gall bladder (pear-shaped organ that stores bile)
|
| vésiculeux {adj} [anatomy]
|
:: vesicular
|
| vespasienne {f}
|
:: urinal (in street)
|
| vespéral {adj} [literary]
|
:: evening (attributive)
|
| vespéralement {adv}
|
:: during the evening
|
| vespiforme {adj} [biology]
|
:: vespiform
|
| vespoïde {m}
|
:: vespoid
|
| vesse {f}
|
:: fart
|
| vesse-de-loup {f}
|
:: puffball
|
| vesser {v} [dated, colloquial]
|
:: To fart
|
| vessie {f} [anatomy]
|
:: bladder
|
| Vesta {prop} [Roman god]
|
:: Vesta
|
| Vesta {prop} [astronomy]
|
:: Vesta
|
| vestale {f}
|
:: vestal
|
| veste {f}
|
:: jacket (garment)
|
| vestiaire {m}
|
:: locker room, changing room
|
| vestiaire {m} [religion]
|
:: vestry
|
| vestibulaire {adj}
|
:: vestibular
|
| vestibule {m}
|
:: hall, entrance hall
|
| vestibule {m}
|
:: vestibule
|
| vestige {m}
|
:: vestige, relic
|
| vestigial {adj}
|
:: vestigial
|
| vestimentaire {adj}
|
:: vestimentary, sartorial; clothing, dress (attributive)
|
| vestimentairement {adv}
|
:: vestimentarily
|
| veston {m}
|
:: (man's) jacket
|
| Vestphalie {prop} {f}
|
:: alternative spelling of Westphalie
|
| Vésuve {prop} {m}
|
:: Vesuvius (volcano in Italy)
|
| vêtement {m}
|
:: garment, item of clothing
|
| vêtement {m}
|
:: (in plural vêtements) clothes, clothing
|
| vétéran {m}
|
:: veteran
|
| vétérant {adj}
|
:: alternative form of vétéran
|
| vétérinaire {adj}
|
:: veterinary
|
| vétérinaire {mf}
|
:: veterinarian, veterinary surgeon, vet [short form for the two previous terms]
|
| vétérotestamentaire {adj}
|
:: vetero-testamentary, Old Testament (attributive)
|
| vétillard {m}
|
:: trifler (someone who trifles)
|
| vétille {f}
|
:: trifle, triviality
|
| vétiller {vi} [archaic]
|
:: to trifle (deal with unimportant things)
|
| vétilleux {adj}
|
:: punctilious
|
| vétilleux {adj}
|
:: captious
|
| vêtir {vt} [dated]
|
:: to dress, to clothe
|
| vêtir {vp} [dated]
|
:: to dress, get dressed
|
| vétiver {m}
|
:: vetiver
|
| veto {m}
|
:: veto
|
| veto {mf}
|
:: vet (veterinarian)
|
| véto {m}
|
:: veto
|
| véto {mf} [colloquial]
|
:: vet (veterinarian, veterinary surgeon)
|
| Vettel {prop}
|
:: Vettel; surname
|
| vêtu {adj}
|
:: dressed
|
| vêture {f}
|
:: investiture
|
| vêture {f}
|
:: clothing (action)
|
| vêture {f} [architecture]
|
:: cladding
|
| vétuste {adj}
|
:: run-down, dilapidated
|
| vétuste {adj}
|
:: outdated, antiquated
|
| vétusté {f}
|
:: dilapidation
|
| veuf {n}
|
:: widower (a man whose wife has died and who has not remarried)
|
| veuf {adj}
|
:: widowed
|
| veuf {adj}
|
:: odd (missing its pair)
|
| veule {adj} [literary]
|
:: feeble
|
| veulerie {f} [literary]
|
:: spinelessness, feebleness
|
| veuvage {m}
|
:: widowhood
|
| veuve {f}
|
:: widow
|
| veuve noire {f}
|
:: black widow (arachnid)
|
| veuve noire {f}
|
:: black widow (woman who kills)
|
| vexant {adj}
|
:: annoying; irritating; frustrating
|
| vexation {f}
|
:: insult
|
| vexation {f}
|
:: humiliation
|
| vexation {f}
|
:: harassment
|
| vexatoire {adj}
|
:: vexatious, harassing
|
| vexé {adj}
|
:: vexed, annoyed
|
| vexer {v}
|
:: to irritate; to annoy
|
| vexer {v}
|
:: to offend, to hurt
|
| vexillologie {f}
|
:: vexillology
|
| vexillologique {adj}
|
:: vexillological
|
| vexillologiquement {adv}
|
:: vexillogically
|
| VF {n} [initialism, film]
|
:: "version française" — French-language version (FV); a film dubbed in French
|
| VFSTA {n} [initialism]
|
:: "version français sous-titres anglais" — French-language version with English subtitles (OFVEST); a film dubbed in French with English-language subtitles
|
| VHR {mf} [masculine]
|
:: PHEV; abbreviation of véhicule hybride rechargeable
|
| VHR {mf} [feminine]
|
:: abbreviation of voiture hybride rechargeable
|
| VHS {f}
|
:: VHS
|
| via {prep}
|
:: via, through, by way of
|
| viabiliser {vt}
|
:: to service (provide with services)
|
| viabilité {f}
|
:: viability
|
| viabilité {f}
|
:: suitable condition of a road
|
| viable {adj}
|
:: viable, feasible
|
| viaduc {m}
|
:: viaduct
|
| via ferrata {f} [climbing]
|
:: via ferrata (protected climbing route)
|
| viager {adj}
|
:: life (attributive)
|
| viande {f}
|
:: meat
|
| viande {f} [obsolete]
|
:: food
|
| viande {f} [sexuality]
|
:: an object of sexual desire; a piece of meat
|
| viande fumée {f}
|
:: smoked meat [meats that have been smoke-cured]
|
| viande fumée {f}
|
:: smoked meat [Montreal-style smoked meat]
|
| viande fumée {f}
|
:: smoked meat sandwich
|
| viande hachée {f}
|
:: ground meat, minced meat
|
| viarge {interj} [Quebec, vulgar, slang]
|
:: An indication of surprise, indignation, or any other emotion
|
| viatique {m} [religion]
|
:: viaticum (eucharist)
|
| viatique {m}
|
:: money, provisions (for a journey)
|
| Viaud {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| vibe {f}
|
:: vibe
|
| vibraculaire {m}
|
:: vibraculum
|
| vibrance {f}
|
:: vibrancy
|
| vibraphone {m}
|
:: vibraphone
|
| vibraphoniste {mf}
|
:: vibraphonist
|
| vibrateur {m}
|
:: vibrator [mechanical device]
|
| vibratile {adj}
|
:: vibratile
|
| vibration {f}
|
:: vibration
|
| vibrationnel {adj}
|
:: vibrational
|
| vibrato {m} [music]
|
:: vibrato
|
| vibratoire {adj}
|
:: vibratory
|
| vibrer {v}
|
:: to vibrate
|
| vibreur {m}
|
:: vibrate mode (in a mobile phone etc)
|
| vibrion {m}
|
:: vibrio
|
| vibrionique {adj}
|
:: vibrionic
|
| vibrionnaire {adj}
|
:: vibrionic
|
| vibrionnant {adj}
|
:: attention-seeking
|
| vibrisse {f} [anatomy, ornithology]
|
:: vibrissa
|
| vibro- {prefix}
|
:: Forms words related to vibration
|
| vibromasseur {m} [sex]
|
:: vibrator
|
| vibronique {adj}
|
:: vibronic
|
| vicaire {m}
|
:: vicar; curate
|
| vicarial {adj}
|
:: vicarial
|
| vicariat {m}
|
:: curacy
|
| vice {m}
|
:: vice
|
| vice anglais {m} [slang]
|
:: flagellation
|
| vice anglais {m} [slang]
|
:: homosexuality
|
| vice caché {m} [law]
|
:: latent defect, hidden defect
|
| vice de forme {m} [law]
|
:: formal defect, irregularity, technical flaw, breach of procedure
|
| Vicence {prop}
|
:: Vicenza
|
| vicentin {adj}
|
:: Vicentine
|
| Vicentin {m}
|
:: Vicentine
|
| Vicentine {f}
|
:: feminine singular of Vicentin
|
| vice-président {m} [politics]
|
:: vice-president
|
| vice-roi {m}
|
:: viceroy
|
| vicésimal {adj}
|
:: vigesimal
|
| vichy {m}
|
:: gingham
|
| vichy {m}
|
:: Vichy water
|
| Vichy {prop} {mf}
|
:: Vichy
|
| vichysme {m}
|
:: The Vichy regime (in Vichy France)
|
| vichyssois {adj}
|
:: Of or from Vichy
|
| vichyssois {adj}
|
:: Pertaining to the Vichy wartime government
|
| Vichyssois {m}
|
:: Native or inhabitant of Vichy
|
| vichyssoise {f}
|
:: vichyssoise
|
| Vichyssoise {f}
|
:: feminine singular of Vichyssois
|
| vichyste {adj}
|
:: Of or from Vichy
|
| vichyste {mf}
|
:: A partisan during the Vichy France regime
|
| Vichyste {mf}
|
:: A native or inhabitant of Vichy
|
| vicié {adj}
|
:: polluted, tainted; vitiated
|
| vicier {vt}
|
:: to invalidate
|
| vicier {vt}
|
:: to vitiate
|
| vicieusement {adv}
|
:: viciously
|
| vicieux {adj}
|
:: lecherous, perverted, depraved
|
| vicieux {adj}
|
:: sly, deceitful; tricky (question)
|
| vicieux {adj}
|
:: vicious (horse)
|
| vicieux {adj} [literary]
|
:: wrong (word, pronunciation, etc.)
|
| vicieux {m}
|
:: pervert
|
| vicinal {adj}
|
:: vicinal
|
| vicinité {f}
|
:: vicinity
|
| vicissitude {f}
|
:: vicissitude
|
| vicomte {m}
|
:: viscount
|
| vicomté {f}
|
:: viscountship
|
| vicomtesse {f}
|
:: viscountess
|
| victimaire {adj}
|
:: victim (attributive)
|
| victimation {f}
|
:: victimization
|
| victime {f}
|
:: victim
|
| victimer {vt}
|
:: To victimize
|
| victimisation {f}
|
:: victimization/victimisation
|
| victimiser {vt}
|
:: To victimize
|
| victimologie {f}
|
:: victimology
|
| victoire {f}
|
:: victory; win
|
| Victoire {prop} {f}
|
:: given name
|
| victoire à la Pyrrhus {f}
|
:: Pyrrhic victory (a costly victory)
|
| Victor {prop}
|
:: given name
|
| Victoria {prop}
|
:: given name
|
| Victoria {prop}
|
:: Victoria (the lake)
|
| Victoriatown {prop} [historic]
|
:: Victoriatown; Victoriatown (neighbourhood). synonym of Village-aux-Oies (a former Irish neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
|
| Victoriaville {prop}
|
:: Victoriaville (town)
|
| victorien {adj} [architecture]
|
:: Victorian
|
| victorieusement {adv}
|
:: victoriously
|
| victorieux {adj}
|
:: victorious
|
| victuaille {f} [chiefly in the plural]
|
:: provisions, victuals
|
| vidage {m}
|
:: emptying
|
| vidange {f}
|
:: oil change (the emptying and replacing of engine oil in a vehicle)
|
| vidange {f} [Quebec slang]
|
:: garbage, trash
|
| vidanger {v}
|
:: To empty a reservoir, cesspit etc
|
| vidanger {v}
|
:: to change the oil in the motor of a vehicle
|
| vidangeur {m}
|
:: A person who empties a reservoir, cesspit etc
|
| vide {adj}
|
:: empty
|
| vide {adj}
|
:: devoid
|
| vide {adj}
|
:: blank (page, tape)
|
| vide {adj}
|
:: vacant; unfurnished (apartment)
|
| vide {m}
|
:: (empty) space
|
| vide {m}
|
:: vacuum, void
|
| vide {m}
|
:: emptiness
|
| vide {m}
|
:: gap
|
| vidéaste {mf}
|
:: videographer
|
| vide-couilles {m} [sex, vulgar]
|
:: cum dumpster
|
| vide-grenier {m}
|
:: garage sale
|
| vide juridique {m} [law]
|
:: legal vacuum
|
| vidéo- {prefix}
|
:: video-
|
| vidéo {f}
|
:: video (television show, movie)
|
| vidéocassette {f}
|
:: videocassette (cassette containing recorded videotape)
|
| vidéoclip {m}
|
:: music video
|
| vidéocommunication {f}
|
:: video communication
|
| vidéoconférence {f}
|
:: video conference
|
| vidéodisque {m}
|
:: videodisc / videodisk
|
| vidéoludique {adj}
|
:: videogaming (attributive)
|
| vidéoludiquement {adv}
|
:: as in a video game
|
| vidéophone {m}
|
:: videophone
|
| vidéoprojecteur {m}
|
:: video projector
|
| vidéosurveillance {f}
|
:: video surveillance, CCTV
|
| vidéotéléphone {m}
|
:: videotelephone; videophone
|
| vidéotex {m}
|
:: Teletext
|
| vidéothèque {f}
|
:: video collection
|
| vidéothèque {f}
|
:: video library
|
| vide-pomme {m}
|
:: apple-corer
|
| vider {v}
|
:: to empty, to empty out
|
| vider {v}
|
:: to gut (e.g. a fish)
|
| vider l'abcès {v}
|
:: synonym of crever l'abcès
|
| vider les arçons {v} [horsemanship]
|
:: to dismount (to leave the saddle)
|
| vider les couilles {v} [à]
|
:: [vulgar] to empty someone (else)'s balls
|
| vider les couilles {vr}
|
:: [vulgar] to empty one's balls
|
| vider son sac {vi} [colloquial, figuratively]
|
:: to get something off one's chest, to pour one's heart out
|
| videur {m}
|
:: bouncer
|
| videuse {f}
|
:: bouncer
|
| vidien {adj}
|
:: Vidian
|
| viduité {f} [dated, literary]
|
:: widowhood
|
| vie {f}
|
:: life, the state of organisms (organic beings) prior to death
|
| vie {f}
|
:: life, period in which one is alive, between birth and death
|
| vie {f}
|
:: biography, life
|
| vie {f}
|
:: life, lifeforms
|
| vie {f}
|
:: cost of living
|
| vie {f} [Switzerland, Jura]
|
:: way, path (road, railway, etc)
|
| vie de château {f} [figuratively]
|
:: life of Riley
|
| vie de chien {f}
|
:: dog's life (miserable life)
|
| vie de cocagne {f}
|
:: life of Riley, good life (life of ease, pleasure and luxury)
|
| vie de Cocagne {f}
|
:: alternative spelling of vie de cocagne
|
| vie de patachon {f}
|
:: life in the fast lane
|
| vie de tous les jours {f}
|
:: everyday life, day-to-day life, daily life
|
| vieil irlandais {m}
|
:: the Old Irish language
|
| vieil islandais {m}
|
:: alternative form of vieux norrois
|
| vieillard {m}
|
:: an old man, an old person
|
| vieillarde {f}
|
:: feminine noun of vieillard
|
| vieille école {f}
|
:: the old-school way, the traditional way
|
| vieille fille {f}
|
:: spinster, old maid
|
| vieille France {adj}
|
:: traditional, old-fashioned, conservative, old-school
|
| vieillement {adv}
|
:: agedly in an old way
|
| vieillerie {f} [often, in the plural]
|
:: old stuff
|
| vieilles lunes {fp}
|
:: old-fashioned ideas, outdated ideas, hackneyed ideas; things of the past
|
| vieillesse {f}
|
:: old age
|
| vieillesse {f}
|
:: oldness
|
| vieilli {adj}
|
:: old-fashioned; dated
|
| vieillir {vi}
|
:: to grow old, to age
|
| vieillir {vt}
|
:: to make (someone) look older
|
| vieillir {vr}
|
:: to make oneself look older
|
| vieillissant {adj}
|
:: aging
|
| vieillissement {m}
|
:: ageing, the action of getting older
|
| vieillot {adj}
|
:: antiquated
|
| vieillot {adj}
|
:: quaint
|
| vielle {f} [musical instruments]
|
:: vielle, hurdy-gurdy
|
| vielle à roue {f}
|
:: hurdy-gurdy (stringed instrument)
|
| vieller {v}
|
:: to play a vielle
|
| vielleur {m}
|
:: An actor who plays the part of an old man
|
| vielleuse {f}
|
:: feminine singular of vielleur
|
| viendez {interj} [slang]
|
:: come on, come
|
| Vienne {prop} {f}
|
:: Vienne (capital city)
|
| Vienne {prop} {f}
|
:: Vienne (department)
|
| Vienne {prop} {f}
|
:: Vienne (river)
|
| Vienne {prop} {f}
|
:: Vienne (city)
|
| viennois {adj}
|
:: Viennese (from Vienna)
|
| Viennois {m}
|
:: a Viennese person
|
| Viennoise {f}
|
:: feminine noun of Viennois
|
| viennoiserie {f}
|
:: Danish pastry
|
| Vientiane {prop}
|
:: Vientiane (capital city)
|
| vie privée {f}
|
:: private life
|
| vie quotidienne {f}
|
:: everyday life, day-to-day life, daily life
|
| vierge {adj}
|
:: virgin
|
| vierge {adj}
|
:: [recording/storage media] blank
|
| Vierge {prop} {f} [astronomy]
|
:: The stellar constellation Virgo
|
| Vierge {prop} {f} [astrology]
|
:: The zodiac sign Virgo
|
| Vierge {mf}
|
:: Virgo (person with this star sign)
|
| Vierge Marie {prop} {f}
|
:: Virgin Mary (Jesus' mother)
|
| vie sociale {f}
|
:: social life (interpersonal relationships taken collectively; the whole of public activities performed in association with others for the purpose of pleasure)
|
| vietminh {adj} [attributive]
|
:: Vietminh
|
| Vietnam {prop} {m}
|
:: Vietnam
|
| Viet Nam {prop} {m}
|
:: alternative form of Vietnam
|
| Viêt Nam {prop} {m}
|
:: obsolete spelling of Vietnam
|
| vietnamien {adj}
|
:: Vietnamese
|
| vietnamien {m}
|
:: Vietnamese (language)
|
| Vietnamien {m}
|
:: Vietnamese (Vietnamese person)
|
| Vietnamienne {f}
|
:: feminine noun of Vietnamien
|
| vietnamiser {v}
|
:: To make (more) Vietnamese
|
| vieux {adj}
|
:: old
|
| vieux {m}
|
:: old person
|
| vieux breton {m}
|
:: Old Breton (language)
|
| vieux comme Hérode {adj} [simile]
|
:: older than dirt
|
| vieux comme le monde {adj} [simile]
|
:: older than dirt, old as the hills, old as time
|
| vieux comme les chemins {adj} [simile]
|
:: old as the hills, old as time
|
| vieux comme Mathusalem {adj} [simile]
|
:: older than dirt
|
| vieux croûton {m} [offensive, colloquial]
|
:: an old fart
|
| vieux de la vieille {m} [colloquial]
|
:: veteran, old hand, old-timer, old-school one, old boy, boy of the old brigade
|
| vieux français {m}
|
:: alternative form of ancien français
|
| vieux gallois {m}
|
:: Old Welsh
|
| vieux jeu {adj}
|
:: old-fashioned (of persons, manners)
|
| vieux jours {mp}
|
:: old age (of a person)
|
| vieux néerlandais {m}
|
:: the Old Dutch language
|
| vieux norois {m}
|
:: alternative spelling of vieux norrois
|
| vieux norrois {m}
|
:: Old Norse language
|
| vieux perse {m}
|
:: Old Persian
|
| vieux-perse {m}
|
:: Old Persian
|
| vieux russe {m}
|
:: Old Russian, Old East Slavic
|
| vif {adj}
|
:: lively, brisk
|
| vif {adj}
|
:: vivid, bright
|
| vif {adj}
|
:: keen, sharp
|
| vif {adj} [words]
|
:: poignant, cutting, sharp
|
| vif {adj} [edges]
|
:: sharp, jagged
|
| vif {adj} [pain]
|
:: acute, intense, strong
|
| vif {adj} [feelings, emotions]
|
:: great, deep
|
| vif {m}
|
:: living person
|
| vif-argent {m}
|
:: quicksilver; mercury
|
| vif-argent {m} [figuratively]
|
:: rapidness, agility
|
| vigésimal {adj}
|
:: vigesimal
|
| vigie {f} [nautical]
|
:: lookout; watch
|
| vigie {f}
|
:: crow's nest
|
| vigilamment {adv}
|
:: vigilantly
|
| vigilance {f}
|
:: vigilance
|
| vigilant {adj}
|
:: vigilant
|
| vigile {m}
|
:: guard, security guard
|
| vigile {f} [archaic]
|
:: vigil (eve of a religious festival)
|
| vigiler {v}
|
:: To maintain a vigil
|
| vigipirate {adj}
|
:: antiterrorist
|
| vigne {f}
|
:: vine
|
| vigne {f}
|
:: vineyard
|
| vigneron {m}
|
:: winemaker; vigneron
|
| vigneron {adj}
|
:: winemaking (attributive use)
|
| Vigneron {prop}
|
:: Vigneron; surname
|
| vigneronne {f}
|
:: feminine noun of vigneron
|
| vignette {f}
|
:: vignette
|
| vignette {f}
|
:: image, illustration, motif
|
| vignettiste {mf}
|
:: vignettist
|
| vigne vierge {f}
|
:: Virginia creeper
|
| vignoble {m}
|
:: vineyard (grape plantation)
|
| vigogne {m}
|
:: vicuna, vicuña
|
| vigoureusement {adv}
|
:: vigorously (with intense energy)
|
| vigoureux {adj}
|
:: vigorous
|
| vigousse {f}
|
:: vigour, energy
|
| vigousse {adj} [Switzerland]
|
:: vigorous, lively
|
| viguerie {f} [historical]
|
:: A medieval court system that existed in the southern areas of France
|
| vigueur {f}
|
:: vigour
|
| viguier {m} [historical]
|
:: a magistrate that administered a viguerie
|
| vil {adj}
|
:: cheap, worthless
|
| vil {adj}
|
:: vile (morally low)
|
| vilain {m}
|
:: villain
|
| vilain {m}
|
:: peasant
|
| vilain {m}
|
:: country dweller
|
| vilain {adj}
|
:: ugly
|
| vilain {adj}
|
:: disagreeable
|
| vilain {adj}
|
:: villainous
|
| Vilaine {prop}
|
:: Vilaine (river)
|
| vilainement {adv}
|
:: displeasingly; uglily
|
| vilainement {adv}
|
:: dangerously
|
| vilainement {adv}
|
:: miserly; in a miserly way
|
| vilainement {adv}
|
:: immorally
|
| vilain petit canard {m}
|
:: ugly duckling
|
| vilayet {m}
|
:: vilayet
|
| vilbrequin {m}
|
:: alternative form of vilebrequin
|
| vilebrequin {m}
|
:: crank (tool)
|
| vilebrequin {m}
|
:: crankshaft
|
| vilement {adv}
|
:: vilely, basely
|
| vilenie {f}
|
:: vileness, baseness
|
| vilenie {f}
|
:: wickedness
|
| vilipender {vt}
|
:: to vilipend, vilify, revile, scorn, despise, condemn
|
| villa {f}
|
:: villa
|
| villa {f}
|
:: house in the country
|
| village {m}
|
:: village
|
| village {m} [Louisiana French, ]
|
:: town, city
|
| Village-aux-Oies {prop} [historic, colloquial]
|
:: Goose Village; Village-aux-Oies (neighbourhood). (a former neighbourhood in Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
|
| Village-Neuf {prop}
|
:: Village-Neuf (commune)
|
| villageois {adj}
|
:: villagelike, characteristic of a village
|
| villageois {m}
|
:: villager (someone who lives in a village)
|
| villageoise {f}
|
:: female equivalent of villageois
|
| villanelle {f}
|
:: villanelle
|
| villard {adj}
|
:: Of or from Villefontaine
|
| Villard {m}
|
:: Native or inhabitant of Villefontaine
|
| Villarde {f}
|
:: feminine noun of Villard
|
| villardien {adj}
|
:: Of or from Villard-Bonnot or Villard-de-Lans
|
| villardois {adj}
|
:: Of or from Villard-Saint-Christophe or Villars-les-Dombes
|
| -ville {suffix}
|
:: -ville
|
| ville {f}
|
:: town, city
|
| Ville {prop} {f} [Louisiana French, ]
|
:: Ville (city)
|
| Ville de Québec {prop} {f}
|
:: Ville de Québec (capital city)
|
| ville-dortoir {f}
|
:: dormitory town, bedroom community
|
| Villefort {prop}
|
:: A commune in Aude
|
| Villefort {prop}
|
:: A commune in Lozère
|
| Villegaignon {prop} {m}
|
:: alternative spelling of Villegagnon
|
| Villegaignon {prop} {m}
|
:: Villegaignon
|
| villégiateur {m}
|
:: holidaymaker, vacationer
|
| villégiatrice {f}
|
:: feminine noun of villégiateur
|
| villégiature {f}
|
:: holiday
|
| villégiature {f}
|
:: holiday home
|
| ville morte {f} [Africa]
|
:: general strike
|
| ville morte {f} [Africa]
|
:: A town shut down by a general strike
|
| Villeneuve {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| -viller {suffix} [chiefly northern Alsace, Lorraine]
|
:: alternative spelling of -willer
|
| villette {f}
|
:: a small village
|
| villeux {adj} [biology]
|
:: villous
|
| Villiers {prop}
|
:: Any of a number of communes in France
|
| Villiers {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| villosité {f}
|
:: villus
|
| Vilnius {prop}
|
:: Vilnius (capital city)
|
| vimentine {f} [protein]
|
:: vimentin
|
| vin {m}
|
:: wine
|
| vinage {m}
|
:: An ancient manorial right to produce wine on one's land
|
| vinage {m}
|
:: The addition of alcohol to wine
|
| vinaigre {m}
|
:: vinegar
|
| vinaigre balsamique {m}
|
:: balsamic vinegar
|
| vinaigrer {v}
|
:: To souse
|
| vinaigrer {v}
|
:: To pickle
|
| vinaigrette {f}
|
:: vinaigrette (sauce), French dressing
|
| vinaigrette {f}
|
:: vinaigrette (vehicle)
|
| vinaigrier {m}
|
:: vinegar maker
|
| vinaigrier {m}
|
:: cruet (for vinegar)
|
| vinaire {adj}
|
:: wine (attributive)
|
| vinasse {f} [chemistry]
|
:: vinasse
|
| vinasse {f} [colloquialism]
|
:: Poor-quality, bad-tasting wine
|
| vin blanc {m}
|
:: white wine
|
| Vincennes {prop} {f}
|
:: Vincennes (city)
|
| Vincent {prop}
|
:: given name
|
| Vincent {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| vincible {adj}
|
:: vincible
|
| vinciblement {adv}
|
:: vincibly
|
| vinculine {f} [protein]
|
:: vinculin
|
| vin de copeau {m}
|
:: wine in which woodchips have been soaked in order to lighten it
|
| vin de glace {m}
|
:: icewine (alcoholic beverage made from grape juice squeezed from naturally frozen grapes left on the vine)
|
| vin de maison {m}
|
:: house wine
|
| vin de messe {m}
|
:: altar wine
|
| vin de palme {m}
|
:: palm wine
|
| vin de pays {m}
|
:: country wine
|
| vin de poire {m}
|
:: synonym of poiré (perry)
|
| vin de poire {m}
|
:: pear wine (a grape-based wine infused with pear or artificial pear flavour)
|
| vin de riz {m}
|
:: rice wine
|
| vin de table {m}
|
:: table wine
|
| vin d'honneur {m}
|
:: wine reception (buffet with drinks provided)
|
| vindicatif {adj}
|
:: vindictive, vengeful (having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge)
|
| vindicativement {adv}
|
:: vindictively
|
| vindicte {f}
|
:: condemnation
|
| vindicte {f}
|
:: retribution
|
| vin doux {f}
|
:: dessert wine (sweet wine)
|
| vin doux {f}
|
:: grape juice not yet fermented into wine
|
| viné {adj}
|
:: (of wine) fortified
|
| viner {v}
|
:: To add alcohol to a wine to conserve it, in order to transport it without it deteriorating; fortify
|
| vineux {adj}
|
:: vinous
|
| Vingrau {prop} {m}
|
:: Vingrau (town)
|
| vin gris {m}
|
:: A kind of rosé wine made from red grapes, in particular Pinot Noir
|
| vingt {num}
|
:: twenty
|
| vingt {m}
|
:: twenty
|
| vingtaine {f}
|
:: About twenty
|
| vingt-cinq {m}
|
:: twenty-five
|
| vingt-deux {m}
|
:: twenty-two
|
| vingt-deux {interj}
|
:: cheese it!
|
| vingt dieux {interj} [dated]
|
:: blow me down, bloody hell, gosh, good God
|
| vingt et un {num}
|
:: alternative form of vingt-et-un
|
| vingt-et-un {num}
|
:: twenty-one
|
| vingt-et-un {m}
|
:: twenty-one
|
| vingt-et-unième {adj}
|
:: twenty-first
|
| vingt-et-unième {m}
|
:: a twenty-first
|
| vingt-huit {m}
|
:: twenty-eight
|
| vingtième {adj}
|
:: twentieth
|
| vingtième {mf}
|
:: twentieth
|
| vingtièmement {adv}
|
:: twentiethly
|
| vingt-neuf {m}
|
:: twenty-nine
|
| vingt-quatre {m}
|
:: twenty-four
|
| vingt-sept {m}
|
:: twenty-seven
|
| vingt-six {m}
|
:: twenty-six
|
| vingt-trois {m}
|
:: twenty-three
|
| vingtupler {v}
|
:: To multiply by twenty
|
| vingtupler {v}
|
:: To make, or become, twenty times as large
|
| vinicole {adj}
|
:: wine production (attributive)
|
| viniculture {f}
|
:: viniculture
|
| vinifère {adj}
|
:: viniferous; wine-producing
|
| vinificateur {m}
|
:: winemaker
|
| vinification {f}
|
:: winemaking
|
| vinification {f}
|
:: The fermentation stage of winemaking
|
| vinifier {v}
|
:: to make into wine; to vinify
|
| vinique {adj}
|
:: wine (attributive)
|
| vin jaune {m}
|
:: vin jaune
|
| vinomètre {m}
|
:: vinometer
|
| vinosité {f}
|
:: vinosity
|
| vin rosé {m}
|
:: rosé wine
|
| vin rouge {m}
|
:: red wine
|
| vintage {adj}
|
:: vintage
|
| Vintimille {prop} {f}
|
:: Vintimille (city)
|
| vinylacétylène {f} [organic compound]
|
:: vinylacetylene
|
| vinyle {adj}
|
:: vinyl
|
| vinyle {m}
|
:: vinyl
|
| vinylidène {m}
|
:: vinylidene
|
| vinylique {adj} [organic chemistry]
|
:: vinylic
|
| viol {m}
|
:: a rape
|
| violacé {adj}
|
:: purplish
|
| violacer {v}
|
:: to turn purple, to purple
|
| Violaine {prop} {f}
|
:: given name
|
| violateur {m}
|
:: violator, profaner
|
| violation {f}
|
:: violation
|
| violâtre {adj} [literary]
|
:: purpureal, violet
|
| violatrice {f}
|
:: female equivalent of violateur
|
| viol collectif {m}
|
:: gang rape
|
| viol conjugal {m}
|
:: marital rape
|
| viole {f}
|
:: viol
|
| viole d'amour {f} [musical instruments]
|
:: viola d'amore
|
| viole de gambe {f} [musical instruments]
|
:: viola da gamba
|
| violemment {adv}
|
:: violently
|
| violence {f} [uncountable]
|
:: violence
|
| violence {f} [countable]
|
:: act of violence
|
| violence conjugale {f} [uncountable]
|
:: domestic violence
|
| violence conjugale {f} [countable]
|
:: a specific act of domestic violence
|
| viol en réunion {m}
|
:: gang rape
|
| violent {adj}
|
:: violent
|
| violenter {vt}
|
:: to subject to violence, commit violence upon
|
| violenter {vt} [criticized]
|
:: to rape, sexually assault
|
| violer {vt}
|
:: To violate
|
| violer {vt}
|
:: To rape, to have sex with an unwilling partner
|
| violet {m} [usually, uncountable]
|
:: purple (colour)
|
| violet {m} [countable]
|
:: mushroom with a violet cap, such as a webcap or cortinar
|
| violet {adj}
|
:: purple
|
| Violet {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| violette {f}
|
:: violet (plant)
|
| Violette {prop} {f}
|
:: given name
|
| violeur {m}
|
:: rapist
|
| violeuse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of violeur
|
| violier {m}
|
:: stock (of genus Matthiola)
|
| violon {m}
|
:: violin
|
| violon {m}
|
:: violinist
|
| violon {m} [slang]
|
:: jail
|
| violon alto {m} [musical instruments]
|
:: viola
|
| violoncelle {m}
|
:: cello; violoncello
|
| violoncelliste {mf}
|
:: cellist (person who plays the cello)
|
| violon d'Ingres {m}
|
:: hobby, passion
|
| violoner {v}
|
:: to play violon, especially, to play poorly, to fiddle
|
| violoneuse {f}
|
:: feminine singular of violoneux
|
| violoneux {m}
|
:: fiddler (fiddle player)
|
| violoniste {mf}
|
:: violinist
|
| vionnet {m} [very, rare, Switzerland, Ain]
|
:: small street or lane
|
| viorne {f}
|
:: viburnum
|
| vipère {f}
|
:: viper
|
| vipère {f} [figuratively]
|
:: a malignant person
|
| vipère de la mort {f}
|
:: common death adder
|
| vipéridé {m}
|
:: viperid
|
| vipérin {adj}
|
:: viperine, viperous
|
| virage {m}
|
:: bend, turn, curve
|
| virage {m}
|
:: change, shift (in orientation)
|
| virage {m} [skiing]
|
:: turn
|
| virage {m}
|
:: change in colour
|
| virage en lacets {m}
|
:: A succession of hairpin bends
|
| virago {f}
|
:: virago
|
| viral {adj}
|
:: viral
|
| viralement {adv}
|
:: virally
|
| viralité {f}
|
:: contagiousness
|
| viralité {f}
|
:: virality
|
| vire {f} [Switzerland]
|
:: A small ledge on the side of a mountain
|
| virée {f} [colloquial]
|
:: trip
|
| virée {f} [colloquial]
|
:: car or bike ride
|
| virelai {m} [poetry]
|
:: virelai
|
| virelangue {m}
|
:: tongue-twister
|
| virement {m}
|
:: bank transfer, wire transfer
|
| virer {vi}
|
:: to bear, veer (change direction slightly)
|
| virer {vi}
|
:: to turn into, become
|
| virer {vt} [banking]
|
:: to transfer [money, from one account to another]
|
| virer {vt} [colloquial]
|
:: to get rid of, fire, shitcan
|
| virer de bord {v} [nautical]
|
:: to tack, to change tack, to put about
|
| virer de bord {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to change sides, to box the compass
|
| virer de bord {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to switch teams (to change one's sexual orientation)
|
| virer une brosse {phrase}
|
:: [Quebec, slang] to get wasted, drunk, smashed
|
| vireux {adj}
|
:: poisonous
|
| virevoltant {adj}
|
:: twirling, spinning
|
| virevolte {f}
|
:: twirl; spin; turn
|
| virevolter {v}
|
:: to twirl, spin around, loop around
|
| Virgile {prop} {m}
|
:: Virgil
|
| virginal {adj}
|
:: virginal
|
| virginal {m}
|
:: virginal
|
| virginalement {adv}
|
:: virginally; as a virgin
|
| Virginie {prop} {f}
|
:: The US state of Virginia
|
| Virginie {prop} {f}
|
:: given name
|
| Virginie-Occidentale {prop} {f}
|
:: Virginie-Occidentale (state)
|
| virginité {f}
|
:: virginity (state of being a virgin)
|
| virginité {f} [literary]
|
:: moral purity
|
| virgule {f}
|
:: comma (punctuation mark)
|
| virgule {f} [mathematics]
|
:: decimal point (see usage notes)
|
| virgule fixe {f} [mathematics, computing]
|
:: fixed point
|
| virgule flottante {f} [mathematics, computing]
|
:: floating point
|
| virguler {v} [typography]
|
:: to put a comma or commas (in a text)
|
| virialisation {f}
|
:: virialization
|
| viriel {m}
|
:: virial
|
| viril {adj}
|
:: virile
|
| viril {adj}
|
:: manly, masculine
|
| virilement {adv}
|
:: virilely
|
| viriliser {vt}
|
:: to masculinize
|
| virilité {f}
|
:: virility
|
| virion {m} [virology]
|
:: A virion
|
| viroïde {m} [virology, botany]
|
:: viroid (A short section of RNA but without the protein coat typical of viruses)
|
| virologie {f}
|
:: virology (branch of microbiology that deals with the study of viruses and viral disease)
|
| virologique {adj}
|
:: virological
|
| virologiste {mf}
|
:: virologist
|
| virologue {mf}
|
:: virologist
|
| virose {m} [pathology]
|
:: virosis
|
| virtualité {f}
|
:: virtuality
|
| virtuel {adj}
|
:: virtual
|
| virtuellement {adv}
|
:: virtually
|
| virtuose {adj}
|
:: virtuoso
|
| virtuose {mf}
|
:: virtuoso
|
| virtuosité {f}
|
:: virtuosity
|
| virulemment {adv}
|
:: virulently
|
| virulent {adj} [medicine]
|
:: virulent
|
| virulent {adj}
|
:: virulent (hostile)
|
| virus {m}
|
:: virus
|
| virus à ADN {m} [virology]
|
:: DNA virus
|
| virus à ARN {m} [virology]
|
:: RNA virus
|
| virus informatique {m} [computing]
|
:: computer virus
|
| vis {f}
|
:: screw (metal fastener)
|
| visa {m}
|
:: a mark or stamp attesting to the performance of an official action
|
| visa {m}
|
:: a travel visa
|
| visage {m}
|
:: face (anatomy)
|
| visagiste {mf}
|
:: make-up artist
|
| vis-à-vis {adv} [archaic]
|
:: Facing, face-to-face
|
| vis-à-vis {m}
|
:: A meeting, especially a private one
|
| vis-à-vis {m}
|
:: A position where two things face each other
|
| vis-à-vis {m}
|
:: An equivalent
|
| vis-à-vis {m} [rare]
|
:: What faces someone or something, such as a view or the person seated in front
|
| vis-à-vis {m} [historical]
|
:: A type of S-shaped couch or sofa that allows people to be seated face-to-face
|
| vis-à-vis de {prep}
|
:: Opposite
|
| vis-à-vis de {prep}
|
:: Regarding, vis-à-vis
|
| viscéral {adj}
|
:: visceral
|
| viscéral {adj}
|
:: gut (attributive)
|
| viscéralement {adv}
|
:: viscerally
|
| viscère {m} [anatomy, chiefly in the plural]
|
:: viscera, intestines
|
| viscine {f}
|
:: viscin
|
| viscosimètre {m}
|
:: viscometer
|
| viscosité {f}
|
:: viscosity
|
| viser {v}
|
:: to aim at, target
|
| viser {v}
|
:: to issue with a visa
|
| viseur {m}
|
:: sight (on a gun)
|
| viseur {m} [photography]
|
:: viewfinder
|
| Vishnou {prop} {m} [Hinduism]
|
:: Vishnu (the god)
|
| visibilité {f}
|
:: visibility
|
| visible {adj}
|
:: visible
|
| visiblement {adv}
|
:: visibly
|
| visière {f}
|
:: visor
|
| visio {f}
|
:: video conference
|
| visioconférence {f}
|
:: video conference
|
| vision {f}
|
:: vision, sight
|
| vision centrale {f}
|
:: central vision
|
| vision du monde {f}
|
:: worldview
|
| visionnable {adj}
|
:: viewable
|
| visionnage {m}
|
:: viewing
|
| visionnaire {adj}
|
:: visionary
|
| visionnaire {mf}
|
:: visionary
|
| visionnement {m} [Canada]
|
:: a viewing (of a film)
|
| visionner {v}
|
:: to view
|
| visionneur {m} [computing]
|
:: viewer
|
| visionneuse {f}
|
:: A slide viewer
|
| visionneuse {f} [computing]
|
:: viewer
|
| vision périphérique {f}
|
:: peripheral vision
|
| visiophone {m}
|
:: videophone
|
| visite {f}
|
:: visit
|
| visite guidée {f}
|
:: guided tour
|
| visiter {v}
|
:: to visit (a place)
|
| visiteur {m}
|
:: visitor
|
| visiteuse {f}
|
:: female equivalent of visiteur
|
| vison {m}
|
:: mink
|
| vison d'Amérique {m}
|
:: American mink (Mustela vison)
|
| vison d'Europe {m}
|
:: European mink (Mustela lutreola)
|
| visqueux {adj}
|
:: slimy, sticky
|
| visqui {m} [rare]
|
:: whisky
|
| vissage {m}
|
:: screwing
|
| visser {v}
|
:: to screw in; to screw on
|
| visseuse {f}
|
:: electric screwdriver, power screwdriver, screwgun
|
| Vistule {prop} {f}
|
:: Vistula (Polish river)
|
| visualisation {f}
|
:: visualization
|
| visualiser {v}
|
:: to visualize
|
| visuel {adj}
|
:: visual
|
| visuellement {adv}
|
:: visually
|
| visuomoteur {adj} [anatomy]
|
:: visuomotor
|
| vit {m} [obsolete, literary]
|
:: pintle, John Thomas (penis)
|
| vital {adj}
|
:: vital
|
| vitalement {adv}
|
:: vitally
|
| vitalisme {m}
|
:: vitalism
|
| vitaliste {adj}
|
:: vitalist
|
| vitaliste {mf}
|
:: vitalist
|
| vitalité {f}
|
:: vitality
|
| vitamine {f}
|
:: vitamin
|
| vitaminé {adj}
|
:: vitaminized
|
| vitamine A {f}
|
:: vitamin A
|
| vitamine C {f}
|
:: vitamin C
|
| vitaminique {adj}
|
:: vitamin (attributive)
|
| vitchoura {m}
|
:: witzchoura
|
| vite {adv}
|
:: quickly
|
| vite {adj} [obsolete or colloquial]
|
:: quick; fast
|
| vîte {adv}
|
:: archaic spelling of vite
|
| vite fait {adv} [colloquial]
|
:: more or less (approximately)
|
| vite fait {adv} [colloquial]
|
:: quickly, chop-chop, pronto
|
| vitellin {adj}
|
:: vitellin
|
| vitelline {adj}
|
:: vitelline
|
| vitement {adv} [rare, nonstandard or archaic]
|
:: fast; quickly
|
| vitesse {f}
|
:: speed
|
| vitesse {f} [automotive]
|
:: gear
|
| vîtesse {f}
|
:: obsolete spelling of vitesse
|
| vitesse angulaire {f} [physics]
|
:: angular velocity
|
| vitesse de croisière {f}
|
:: cruising speed
|
| vitesse de la lumière {f}
|
:: speed of light (the speed of electromagnetic radiation in a vacuum or in a substance)
|
| vitesse de libération {f} [astrophysics]
|
:: escape velocity
|
| vitesse d'obturation {f} [photography]
|
:: shutter speed
|
| viticole {adj}
|
:: viticulture (attributive)
|
| viticulteur {m}
|
:: (male) winegrower
|
| viticulteur {m}
|
:: (male) viticulturist
|
| viticultrice {f}
|
:: female equivalent of viticulteur
|
| viticulture {f}
|
:: viticulture
|
| vitrage {m}
|
:: glass panelling in a building, or part of it
|
| vitrage {m}
|
:: window pane
|
| vitrail {m}
|
:: stained glass
|
| vitrail {m} [by extension]
|
:: stained glass window
|
| vitrailliste {mf}
|
:: A person who makes stained glass and installs such windows
|
| vitre {f}
|
:: pane of glass, window pane
|
| vitre {f}
|
:: window (of a vehicle)
|
| vitrer {vt}
|
:: to cover with glass, set a glass pane
|
| vitrerie {f}
|
:: glaziery
|
| vitrerie {f}
|
:: windows
|
| vitreusement {adv}
|
:: vitreously
|
| vitreusement {adv}
|
:: glassily
|
| vitreux {adj}
|
:: vitreous, glassy
|
| vitrier {m}
|
:: glazier (craftsman who works with glass, fitting windows, etc)
|
| vitrière {f}
|
:: feminine singular of vitrier
|
| vitrifier {v}
|
:: to vitrify
|
| vitrifier {v}
|
:: to make solid as glass
|
| vitrifier {v}
|
:: to lacquer, give something a smooth, glassy finish
|
| vitrimère {m} [organic chemistry]
|
:: vitrimer
|
| vitrine {f}
|
:: shop window
|
| vitrine {f} [by extension]
|
:: shopping
|
| vitrine {f}
|
:: vitrine (glass-paneled cabinet or case for displaying articles)
|
| vitriol {m}
|
:: vitriol (all senses)
|
| vitrioler {v}
|
:: To vitriolize
|
| vitrollais {adj}
|
:: Of or relating to Vitrolles, France
|
| vitulin {adj}
|
:: vituline
|
| vitupérateur {m}
|
:: vituperator
|
| vitupération {f}
|
:: vituperation, invective
|
| vitupératrice {f}
|
:: feminine noun of vitupérateur
|
| vitupérer {v} [contre]
|
:: to vituperate; to rant and rave; to rail against
|
| vivable {adj}
|
:: bearable
|
| vivable {adj}
|
:: pleasant
|
| vivace {adj}
|
:: Full of life or vitality; vivacious
|
| vivace {adj}
|
:: Long-lived, enduring
|
| vivace {adj} [botany]
|
:: Of a plant that can live for many years; hardy
|
| vivace {adj} [botany]
|
:: perennial
|
| vivacement {adv}
|
:: vivaciously
|
| vivacité {f}
|
:: vivacity
|
| vivaldien {adj}
|
:: Vivaldian
|
| vivandier {m}
|
:: a seller of food and beverages to troops; a sutler
|
| vivandière {f}
|
:: female equivalent of vivandier
|
| vivaneau {m}
|
:: red snapper fish
|
| vivant {adj}
|
:: alive; living
|
| vivant {m}
|
:: a living person
|
| vivant {m}
|
:: a lifetime
|
| vivant {m}
|
:: all living things
|
| vivarium {m}
|
:: vivarium
|
| vivat {m} [chiefly in the plural]
|
:: cheer
|
| vive {f}
|
:: any of certain kind of fish, especially the sand tilefish (Malacanthus plumieri) or the Guinean weever (Trachinus armatus) From FishBase
|
| vivement {adv}
|
:: forcefully, vigorously
|
| viveur {m}
|
:: debauchee
|
| Viviane {prop}
|
:: given name
|
| Vivien {prop} {m}
|
:: given name
|
| Vivienne {prop} {f}
|
:: given name, feminine form of Vivien
|
| vivier {m}
|
:: fishpond
|
| vivier {m} [figuratively]
|
:: breeding-ground
|
| vivifier {v}
|
:: to vivify
|
| vivipare {adj}
|
:: viviparous
|
| viviparement {adv}
|
:: viviparously
|
| vivisection {f}
|
:: vivisection
|
| vivoter {v} [colloquial]
|
:: to struggle, to get by, make ends meet (live without luxury)
|
| vivre {v}
|
:: to live
|
| vivre {v}
|
:: to experience
|
| vivre au-dessus de ses moyens {v}
|
:: to live beyond one's means
|
| vivre avec son temps {v}
|
:: to move with the times
|
| vivre d'amour et d'eau fraiche {v}
|
:: to live a carefree life
|
| vivre d'amour et d'eau fraîche {v}
|
:: alternative spelling of vivre d'amour et d'eau fraiche
|
| vivre dans une grotte {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to live under a rock
|
| vivres {mp} [plurale tantum]
|
:: food supplies, provisions
|
| vivre sa vie {v}
|
:: to live one's life, to live one's own life, to get on with one's life
|
| vivrier {adj}
|
:: food-producing
|
| vizir {m}
|
:: vizier
|
| vizirat {m}
|
:: vizierate
|
| VJ {mf}
|
:: VJ, a video jockey
|
| Vl. {n} [music]
|
:: abbreviation of violon
|
| v'la {interj} [colloquial]
|
:: nonstandard spelling of voilà
|
| vlan {interj}
|
:: wham!, bang!, whack!, wallop!
|
| vlan {m}
|
:: bling
|
| Vlc. {n} [music]
|
:: abbreviation of violoncelle
|
| VLS {m} [automotive]
|
:: abbreviation of véhicule en libre-service or voiture en libre-service
|
| VLS {m} [bicycling]
|
:: abbreviation of vélo en libre-service
|
| VMR {prop} {f} [Quebec]
|
:: TMR ; Ville Mont-Royal - a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada
|
| Vn. {n} [music]
|
:: abbreviation of violon
|
| Vo {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| VO {n} [initialism, film]
|
:: "version originale" — original-language version (OV); a non-French-language film
|
| vº {n}
|
:: abbreviation of verso
|
| VOA {n} [initialism, film]
|
:: initialism of version originale anglais — original English version (OEV); an English-language film
|
| VOASTF {n} [initialism]
|
:: "version originale anglais sous-titres français" — English-language original with French subtitles (OEVFST); a film with original English-language dialogue having French-language subtitles
|
| vocable {m}
|
:: term
|
| vocabulaire {m}
|
:: vocabulary
|
| vocabulaire actif {m}
|
:: active vocabulary
|
| vocabulaire passif {m}
|
:: passive vocabulary
|
| vocal {adj}
|
:: vocal, related to the voice
|
| vocalement {adv}
|
:: vocally (with respect to vocals)
|
| vocalique {adj}
|
:: vocalic, vowel (attributive)
|
| vocaliquement {adv}
|
:: vocalically (with regard to vowels
|
| vocalise {f}
|
:: a vocalise
|
| vocaliser {v}
|
:: to vocalize
|
| vocaliste {mf}
|
:: vocalist
|
| vocatif {m} [grammar]
|
:: vocative, vocative case
|
| vocation {f}
|
:: vocation (calling)
|
| vocation {f}
|
:: vocation (employment; career; work)
|
| vocifération {f}
|
:: vociferation
|
| vociférer {vi} [sometimes transitive]
|
:: to shout, scream, vociferate
|
| vodka {f}
|
:: vodka
|
| voeu {m}
|
:: nonstandard spelling of vœu
|
| vœu {m}
|
:: vow
|
| vœu {m}
|
:: wish
|
| vœu pieux {m}
|
:: vain wish, wishful thinking
|
| VOF {n} [initialism, film]
|
:: "version originale français" — original French version (OFV); a French-language film
|
| VOFASTF {n} [initialism]
|
:: "version originale française anglaise sous-titres français" — French English-language original with French subtitles (OFEVFST); a film with a mix of both French and English-language dialogue having French-language subtitles
|
| VOFSTA {n} [initialism]
|
:: "version originale française sous-titres anglais" — French-language original with English subtitles (OFVEST); a film with original French-language dialogue having English-language subtitles
|
| vogue {f}
|
:: vogue
|
| vogue la galère {adv}
|
:: come what may
|
| voguer {vi}
|
:: to travel through the water
|
| voguer {v} [of a ship or goods on a ship]
|
:: to sail
|
| voguer {v} [of an animal]
|
:: to swim
|
| voguer {v} [of rowers]
|
:: to row
|
| voici {v}
|
:: here is
|
| voici {prep}
|
:: ago
|
| voici que {adv}
|
:: here
|
| voie {f}
|
:: way, track
|
| voie {f}
|
:: lane (of a highway)
|
| voie {f} [figuratively]
|
:: calling, path in life
|
| voie de circulation {f}
|
:: traffic lane, taxiway
|
| voie de communication {f}
|
:: communication channel, communication route, communication pathway; connecting road, thoroughfare
|
| voie de droit {f}
|
:: right course of law
|
| voie de fait {f} [law]
|
:: violence
|
| voie de garage {f} [rail]
|
:: stabling siding [UK]
|
| voie de garage {f} [figuratively]
|
:: dead end
|
| voie ferrée {phrase} [rail transport]
|
:: Railroad track
|
| voie lactée {f} [astronomy]
|
:: the Milky Way (as seen from Earth)
|
| Voie lactée {f}
|
:: alternative spelling of voie lactée
|
| voie métabolique {f} [physiology]
|
:: metabolic pathway
|
| voie rapide {f}
|
:: expressway
|
| voie romaine {f} [historical]
|
:: Roman road
|
| voie verte {f}
|
:: greenway
|
| voilà {v}
|
:: There (it) is
|
| voilà {v}
|
:: Here (it) is
|
| voilà {v}
|
:: That is
|
| voilage {m}
|
:: veiling
|
| voilage {m}
|
:: veils, nets
|
| voilage {m}
|
:: net curtain
|
| voilà tout {interj}
|
:: that's all, there you have it
|
| voile {m} [countable]
|
:: veil
|
| voile {f} [countable]
|
:: sail
|
| voile {f} [uncountable, sports]
|
:: sailing
|
| voilé {adj}
|
:: veiled (wearing a veil)
|
| voile du palais {m}
|
:: soft palate
|
| voile intégral {m}
|
:: burqa
|
| voile latine {f}
|
:: lateen
|
| voiler {vt}
|
:: To veil (cover with a veil)
|
| voiler {vt}
|
:: To cover up, to cloak, to veil (to restrict the view of something)
|
| voiler {vr}
|
:: To become cloudy, to become hazy
|
| voiler {vr}
|
:: To cover up with a veil
|
| voilerie {f}
|
:: sailmaker's (workshop)
|
| Voiles {prop} {mp}
|
:: Vela (constellation)
|
| voilette {f}
|
:: veil (on a hat)
|
| voilier {m}
|
:: sailboat (a boat propelled by sails)
|
| voilier {m}
|
:: sailfish
|
| voilier {m}
|
:: sailmaker (profession)
|
| voilure {f}
|
:: sail (all the sails of a ship)
|
| voilure {f}
|
:: wing (all the lift-producing surfaces of an aircraft)
|
| voir {v}
|
:: to see (visually)
|
| voir {v}
|
:: to see (to understand)
|
| voir {v}
|
:: to see (to visit, to go and see)
|
| voir {adv} [Louisiana French]
|
:: please (used to mark the imperative)
|
| voir d'un bon œil {vt} [figuratively]
|
:: to look on with a favourable eye, to view in a favourable light, to welcome
|
| voir d'un mauvais œil {vt}
|
:: to take a dim view of, to look unfavourably on, to frown upon
|
| voir du pays {v}
|
:: to travel around, to get around
|
| voire {adv} [obsolete]
|
:: truly
|
| voire {adv} [literary]
|
:: even, indeed
|
| voire {adv} [literary]
|
:: it remains to be seen
|
| voirement {adv} [obsolete, 17th century and earlier]
|
:: really; truly
|
| voir grand {v} [colloquial]
|
:: to think big
|
| voirie {f}
|
:: road, rail and waterways network
|
| voir la vie en rose {v} [colloquial]
|
:: to wear rose-colored glasses
|
| voir le bout du tunnel {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to see the light at the end of the tunnel
|
| voir le jour {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to be born
|
| voir le jour {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to see the light of day
|
| voir le loup {v} [humorous]
|
:: to lose one's virginity
|
| voir midi à sa porte {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to look at things in a solipsistic manner, to be wrapped up in oneself
|
| voir rouge {v} [colloquial]
|
:: to see red, to be furious
|
| voir trente-six chandelles {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to see stars
|
| voir venir {vt} [colloquial]
|
:: to see coming
|
| voisé {adj} [linguistics]
|
:: voiced (sounded with vibration of the vocal cords)
|
| voisement {f} [phonetics, phonology]
|
:: sonorization, voicing
|
| voisin {adj}
|
:: neighbouring/neighboring
|
| voisin {m}
|
:: neighbour/neighbor
|
| voisinage {m}
|
:: proximity, vicinity
|
| voisinage {m}
|
:: neighbourly relations
|
| voisinage {m}
|
:: neighbourhood
|
| voisinage orthographique {m}
|
:: orthographic neighborhood
|
| voisin de palier {m}
|
:: neighbour across the landing, neighbour across the hall, next door neighbour
|
| voisine {f}
|
:: female equivalent of voisin
|
| voisiner {vi} [archaic]
|
:: to be good neighbours
|
| voisiner {vi}
|
:: to neighbour, be next to or near to
|
| voiture {f}
|
:: car (motorized vehicle)
|
| voiture {f} [historical]
|
:: car (wheeled vehicle usually pulled by a horse)
|
| voiture {f}
|
:: car (wagon)
|
| voiture-balai {f}
|
:: broom wagon
|
| voiture-bélier {f}
|
:: vehicle used to ram into a building or crowd
|
| voiture de fonction {f}
|
:: company car, take-home vehicle
|
| voiture hybride rechargeable {m}
|
:: A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) that is a car
|
| voiture piégée {f}
|
:: car bomb (car filled with explosives)
|
| voiturer {vt} [archaic]
|
:: to transport
|
| voiturer {vt}
|
:: to drive, chauffeur (transport by vehicle)
|
| voiture-restaurant {f}
|
:: dining car
|
| voiture téléguidée {f}
|
:: radio-controlled car
|
| voiturette {f}
|
:: small car
|
| voiturette {f}
|
:: toy car
|
| voiturette {f}
|
:: voiturette
|
| voiturier {m} [originally]
|
:: a haulier
|
| voiturier {m}
|
:: a valet (person employed to park a vehicle)
|
| voiturière {f}
|
:: feminine singular of voiturier
|
| voiturin {m}
|
:: vetturino
|
| voïvode {m}
|
:: voivode
|
| voix {f} [general, music, linguistics]
|
:: voice
|
| voix {f} [politics]
|
:: vote
|
| voix active {f} [grammar]
|
:: active voice
|
| voix de crécelle {f}
|
:: a rasping and high-pitched voice, a shrill voice, an unpleasant voice
|
| voix de la raison {f}
|
:: voice of reason
|
| voix de poitrine {f} [music]
|
:: chest voice
|
| voix de stentor {f}
|
:: a stentorian voice
|
| voix de tête {f} [music]
|
:: head voice
|
| voix off {f}
|
:: voice-over
|
| voix passive {f} [grammar]
|
:: passive voice
|
| vol {m}
|
:: flight
|
| vol {m}
|
:: stealing, theft, robbery
|
| volage {adj}
|
:: flighty, fickle
|
| volage {adj}
|
:: unfaithful
|
| volaille {f}
|
:: poultry
|
| volailler {m}
|
:: poulterer
|
| vol à la tire {m}
|
:: pickpocketing
|
| vol à l'étalage {m}
|
:: shoplifting; an instance of shoplifting
|
| vol à main armée {m}
|
:: armed robbery
|
| volant {m}
|
:: steering wheel
|
| volant {m} [technical]
|
:: flywheel
|
| volant {m}
|
:: flounce
|
| volant {m} [badminton]
|
:: shuttlecock, birdie
|
| volapük {m}
|
:: Volapük (language)
|
| volatil {adj} [chemistry]
|
:: volatile
|
| volatil {adj} [computing, of memory]
|
:: volatile
|
| volatil {adj} [computing, of a variable]
|
:: volatile
|
| volatil {adj}
|
:: flying, volant
|
| volatil {adj}
|
:: evanescent
|
| volatile {m}
|
:: fowl, bird
|
| volatiliser {vtr} [chemistry]
|
:: to volatilize
|
| volatiliser {vt}
|
:: to extinguish, obliterate
|
| volatiliser {vr}
|
:: to vanish
|
| volatilité {f}
|
:: volatility
|
| vol-au-vent {m}
|
:: A puff pastry with a hole to accommodate a filling, generally savoury. Vol-au-vent
|
| vol à voile {m}
|
:: gliding
|
| volcan {m}
|
:: volcano
|
| volcanique {adj}
|
:: volcanic
|
| volcanisme {m}
|
:: volcanism (natural phenomena associated with volcanoes)
|
| volcanologie {f}
|
:: volcanology (study of volcanoes)
|
| volcanologique {adj}
|
:: volcanological
|
| volcanologue {mf}
|
:: vulcanologist
|
| vol coqueluche {m} [alternative medicine]
|
:: a European climatotherapy for whooping cough, that involves a flight consisting of a rapid ascent to 3-3.5km up, staying there for 3/4-1 hour, descent to 1.5km and then landing
|
| volée {f} [of birds]
|
:: flying, flight
|
| volée {f} [of birds]
|
:: flock, group
|
| volée {f} [of missiles]
|
:: volley
|
| volée {f} [colloquial]
|
:: thrashing, defeat
|
| volée {f} [of stairs]
|
:: flight
|
| volée {f} [sports]
|
:: volley
|
| volée de bois vert {f}
|
:: severe reprimand, often to correct an undesirable behaviour
|
| volée de bois vert {f}
|
:: harsh criticism
|
| volémie {f}
|
:: blood volume
|
| voler {vi}
|
:: to fly (through the air)
|
| voler {vt}
|
:: to fly (an aircraft)
|
| voler {vt} [falconry]
|
:: to pursue flying
|
| voler {vi}
|
:: to scarper, flee
|
| voler {vt}
|
:: to steal, rob
|
| voler de ses propres ailes {v} [figuratively]
|
:: to stand on one's own two feet
|
| voler en éclats {vi} [figuratively]
|
:: to be smashed to pieces, to be smashed to bits, to shatter
|
| voler la vedette {v} [à]
|
:: to steal someone's thunder, to steal the show from someone, to steal the limelight from someone
|
| volet {m}
|
:: (window) shutter
|
| volet {m} [aviation]
|
:: flap
|
| volet {m}
|
:: volet, wing (of a triptych)
|
| volet {m}
|
:: section, part (of a trilogy, plan, etc.)
|
| voleter {v}
|
:: to flutter
|
| voleur {m}
|
:: robber, thief
|
| voleur {m}
|
:: flier (one who flies)
|
| voleur {adj}
|
:: thieving, thievish
|
| voleur à la tire {m}
|
:: pickpocket
|
| voleur de grand chemin {m} [historical]
|
:: highwayman, highway robber
|
| voleuse {f}
|
:: female equivalent of voleur
|
| Volhynie {prop} {f}
|
:: Volhynie (region)
|
| volière {f}
|
:: aviary
|
| volière {f}
|
:: birdcage
|
| volition {f} [philosophy, psychology]
|
:: volition
|
| volley {m} [sports]
|
:: volleyball
|
| volley-ball {m}
|
:: volleyball (sport)
|
| volleyball {m}
|
:: alternative spelling of volley-ball
|
| volley-ball de plage {m}
|
:: alternative spelling of volleyball de plage
|
| volleyball de plage {m} [sport]
|
:: beach volleyball
|
| volleyballène {m} [organic chemistry]
|
:: volleyballene
|
| volleyer {vt} [sports]
|
:: to volley
|
| volleyeur {m}
|
:: volleyball player
|
| volleyeuse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of volleyeur
|
| volontaire {adj}
|
:: voluntary, deliberate
|
| volontaire {adj}
|
:: volunteer
|
| volontaire {adj}
|
:: determined
|
| volontaire {adj}
|
:: wilful
|
| volontaire {mf}
|
:: a volunteer
|
| volontairement {adv}
|
:: intentionally, voluntarily
|
| volontariat {m}
|
:: volunteering (action of volunteering)
|
| volontarisme {m}
|
:: voluntarism
|
| volontariste {adj}
|
:: voluntarist
|
| volontariste {adj}
|
:: volunteer (used attributively)
|
| volonté {f}
|
:: wish, will
|
| volontiers {adv}
|
:: willingly, gladly
|
| volt {m}
|
:: volt
|
| voltage {m}
|
:: voltage
|
| voltaïque {adj}
|
:: voltaic
|
| voltaïquement {adv}
|
:: voltaically
|
| voltairien {adj}
|
:: Voltairean
|
| voltamètre {m}
|
:: voltmeter
|
| voltamétrique {adj}
|
:: voltammetric
|
| volte-face {f}
|
:: U-turn; about face (act of turning round 180 degrees)
|
| volte-face {f} [figuratively]
|
:: U-turn; volte-face
|
| volter {vi} [fencing]
|
:: to make a volt
|
| voltige {f}
|
:: aerobatics
|
| voltige {f}
|
:: vaulting
|
| voltigeant {adj}
|
:: fluttering
|
| voltiger {vi}
|
:: to flutter
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| voltiger {v} [Louisiana French]
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:: to fly, to take a plane
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| voltigeur {m}
|
:: voltigeur (all senses)
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| voltigeur {m} [Canada, baseball]
|
:: outfielder
|
| voltigeuse {f}
|
:: feminine singular of voltigeur
|
| voltmètre {m}
|
:: voltmeter
|
| volubile {adj}
|
:: inconstant, changeable, variable
|
| volubilement {adv}
|
:: volubly
|
| volubilité {f}
|
:: volubility
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| volume {m}
|
:: volume (of a book, a written work)
|
| volume {m}
|
:: volume (sound)
|
| volume {m}
|
:: volume (amount of space something takes up)
|
| volume {m}
|
:: volume (amount; quantity)
|
| volume {m} [figuratively]
|
:: an overly long piece of writing
|
| volume sonore {m}
|
:: sound level
|
| volumétrique {adj}
|
:: volumetric
|
| volumétriquement {adv}
|
:: volumetrically
|
| volumineux {adj}
|
:: voluminous, bulky, packed, thick
|
| volumique {adj}
|
:: volumic (pertaining to volume)
|
| volupté {f}
|
:: voluptuousness
|
| volupté {f}
|
:: rich and intense pleasure, especially sexual pleasure
|
| voluptueusement {adv}
|
:: voluptuously
|
| voluptueux {adj}
|
:: voluptuous
|
| volute {f} [architecture]
|
:: volute
|
| volute {f} [music, lutherie]
|
:: scroll (of a musical instrument)
|
| volvacé {adj}
|
:: Having the form of a pocket or sack
|
| vomer {m}
|
:: vomer, vomer bone
|
| voméronasal {adj} [anatomy]
|
:: vomeronasal
|
| vomi {m}
|
:: vomit
|
| vomir {v}
|
:: to vomit
|
| vomissement {m}
|
:: sick; vomit (act of vomiting)
|
| vomissure {f}
|
:: vomit, sick
|
| vomitif {adj}
|
:: vomitive, emetic
|
| vomitif {m}
|
:: vomitive, emetic
|
| vomito {m}
|
:: vomito (disease)
|
| vonckiste {adj}
|
:: Relating to, or characteristic of Jean-François Vonck
|
| vonckiste {mf}
|
:: A revolutionary supporter of Jean-François Vonck
|
| vorace {adj}
|
:: voracious, ravenous
|
| voracement {adv}
|
:: voraciously
|
| voracité {f}
|
:: voracity, voraciousness
|
| -vore {suffix}
|
:: -vore
|
| -vore {suffix}
|
:: -vorus
|
| vortex {m}
|
:: vortex
|
| vorticité {f}
|
:: vorticity
|
| Vosges {prop} {fp}
|
:: Vosges (mountain range)
|
| Vosges {prop} {fp}
|
:: Vosges (department)
|
| vosgien {adj}
|
:: of or relating to Vosges
|
| Vosgien {m}
|
:: person from or living in Vosges
|
| Vosgienne {f}
|
:: feminine noun of Vosgien
|
| VOST {n} [initialism]
|
:: version originale sous-titrée — original version with subtitles; a non-French film with French subtitles
|
| VOSTA {n} [initialism]
|
:: "version originale sous-titres anglais" — non-French original with English subtitles (OFVEST); a non-French-language film having English-language subtitles
|
| VOSTF {f} [initialism]
|
:: "version originale sous-titres français" — original-language version French subtitles (OVFST); a film in a non-French language, with French-language subtitles
|
| vostfr {n}
|
:: alternative form of VOSTF
|
| vostre {pron}
|
:: archaic spelling of votre
|
| Vostre Majesté {pron}
|
:: archaic spelling of Votre Majesté
|
| votant {m}
|
:: voter (one who votes)
|
| votation {f}
|
:: Action of voting
|
| vote {m}
|
:: vote
|
| vote à main levée {m}
|
:: show of hands
|
| voter {v}
|
:: to vote
|
| votif {adj}
|
:: votive
|
| votre {determiner} [possessive]
|
:: Your, belonging to you (plural)
|
| Votre Altesse {pron}
|
:: Your Highness
|
| Votre Courtoisie {pron}
|
:: Your Courtesy
|
| votredit {determiner}
|
:: your (plural) said
|
| Votre Excellence {pron}
|
:: Your Excellency
|
| Votre Grâce {pron}
|
:: your grace
|
| Votre Grandeur {pron}
|
:: Your Highness
|
| Votre Majesté {pron}
|
:: Your Majesty, address for a ruling monarch
|
| Votre Révérence {pron}
|
:: Your Worship
|
| voudou {m} [Louisiana French]
|
:: voodoo
|
| vouer {v}
|
:: to vow
|
| vouer {vt}
|
:: to devote (+ à to)
|
| vouer {vr}
|
:: to devote oneself, to be devoted
|
| vouer aux gémonies {vt}
|
:: to pillory, to blame
|
| voueur {m}
|
:: vower (someone who vows)
|
| voueur {m}
|
:: devoter (someone who devotes)
|
| voueuse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of voueur
|
| Vouillé {prop} {m}
|
:: Vouillé (municipality)
|
| Vouillé {prop} {m} [by ellipsis]
|
:: Battle of Vouillé
|
| vouivre {f} [mythology, heraldiccharge]
|
:: wyvern
|
| vouivre {f} [mythology, regional]
|
:: a mythical reptile said to inhabit Lorraine, Jura, and other regions of France
|
| voulez-vous coucher avec moi {phrase}
|
:: would you like to sleep with me?
|
| vouloir {vt}
|
:: to want, wish, desire
|
| vouloir {vr}
|
:: to see oneself as; to give the impression of, to seem
|
| vouloir {m}
|
:: will
|
| vouloir c'est pouvoir {proverb}
|
:: Where there's a will, there's a way.
|
| vouloir dire {v}
|
:: to mean; to signify
|
| vous {pron}
|
:: The plural personal pronoun in the second person:
|
| vous {pron}
|
:: [subject pronoun] You
|
| vous {pron}
|
:: [direct object pronoun] You
|
| vous {pron}
|
:: You, to you [indirect object pronoun]
|
| vous {pron} [formal, polite]
|
:: plural or singular personal pronoun in the second person
|
| vous autres {pron}
|
:: You; ye: second-person plural pronoun
|
| vous-autres {pron}
|
:: alternative spelling of vous autres
|
| vous-même {pron} [emphatic]
|
:: yourself
|
| vous-mêmes {pron} [emphatic]
|
:: yourselves
|
| vous m'en direz des nouvelles {phrase}
|
:: I'm sure you'll like it! You won't regret it!
|
| voussoir {m} [architecture]
|
:: voussoir
|
| voussure {f} [architecture]
|
:: The curving profile of an arch
|
| vous voulez rire {interj} [colloquial]
|
:: you gotta be joking! you must be kidding!
|
| voute {f}
|
:: alternative spelling of voûte
|
| voûte {f} [architecture]
|
:: arch
|
| voûte {f} [architecture]
|
:: vault
|
| voûte céleste {f} [poetic]
|
:: welkin, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven, celestial vault, sky, heavens
|
| voûte d'ogives {f} [architecture]
|
:: ribbed vault
|
| voûte palatine {f} [anatomy]
|
:: hard palate
|
| vouter {v}
|
:: alternative spelling of voûter
|
| voûter {vt}
|
:: to vault a ceiling
|
| voûter {vt}
|
:: to cause to stoop
|
| vouvoiement {m}
|
:: The use of formal register, addressing someone with the polite vous-form
|
| vouvouzela {f} [rare]
|
:: alternative spelling of vuvuzela
|
| vouvoyer {vt}
|
:: to address someone using the formal pronoun vous rather than the informal tu, to use the V-form, to "you" (as opposed to "to "thou"")
|
| voyable {adj} [obsolete]
|
:: visible
|
| voyage {m}
|
:: trip, travel
|
| voyage d'affaires {m}
|
:: business trip
|
| voyage de noces {m}
|
:: honeymoon (trip taken by a newly wed married couple)
|
| voyager {v}
|
:: to travel
|
| voyageur {m}
|
:: traveller
|
| voyageuse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of voyageur
|
| voyagiste {mf}
|
:: tour operator
|
| voyance {f}
|
:: The apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses
|
| voyance {f}
|
:: mind-reading
|
| voyant {adj}
|
:: clairvoyant
|
| voyant {adj}
|
:: showy, gaudy
|
| voyant {adj}
|
:: staring
|
| voyant {m}
|
:: seer, clairvoyant
|
| voyant {m}
|
:: light (e.g. on a car dashboard)
|
| voyant {m} [nautical]
|
:: dayboard
|
| voyelle {f}
|
:: vowel
|
| voyer {m}
|
:: a civil servant whose work is connected to roads, waterways, or railways
|
| voyeur {m}
|
:: observer; watcher
|
| voyeur {m}
|
:: voyeur, peeping tom
|
| voyeurisme {m}
|
:: voyeurism (derivation of sexual satisfaction by watching people secretly)
|
| voyeuriste {adj}
|
:: voyeuristic
|
| voyeuse {f}
|
:: feminine noun of voyeur
|
| voyons {interj}
|
:: really!
|
| voyons {interj}
|
:: yeah right!
|
| voyons voir {interj}
|
:: let's see, let me see
|
| voyou {m} [pejorative]
|
:: thug, yob
|
| voyoucratie {f}
|
:: mob rule
|
| VPC {f}
|
:: initialism of vente par correspondance (mail order)
|
| VPS {m}
|
:: abbreviation of vélo à pneus surdimensionnés synonym of fat bike
|
| vrac {m}
|
:: bulk
|
| vrai {adj}
|
:: true
|
| vrai {adj}
|
:: real
|
| vrai {m}
|
:: truth
|
| vrai {adv}
|
:: true; truly
|
| vraiement {adv}
|
:: obsolete spelling of vraiment
|
| vraiment {adv}
|
:: truly, really, genuinely
|
| vraiment {adv} [intensifier]
|
:: really; very
|
| vraiment {interj}
|
:: really? for real?
|
| vraisemblable {adj}
|
:: plausible, likely
|
| vraisemblablement {adv}
|
:: probably
|
| vraisemblance {f}
|
:: verisimilitude
|
| vraisemblance {f}
|
:: likelihood
|
| vraquier {m}
|
:: bulk carrier
|
| vrille {f} [botany]
|
:: tendril
|
| vrille {f} [technology]
|
:: gimlet
|
| vrille {f}
|
:: spiral
|
| vrille {f} [aviation]
|
:: tailspin, spin
|
| vriller {v}
|
:: to wind up; roll up
|
| vriller {v}
|
:: to gimlet
|
| vrillette {f}
|
:: a type of beetle that eats wood: specifically; one of a small number of species of beetle
|
| vrmnt {adv} [text messaging, internet]
|
:: short for vraiment
|
| vrombir {v}
|
:: to hum, whirr
|
| vrombissement {m}
|
:: humming, whirring, whizzing
|
| VRP {n} [France]
|
:: initialism of voyageur représentant placier
|
| vs. {prep}
|
:: nonstandard spelling of vs
|
| vs {prep}
|
:: vs.
|
| VSL {prop} {f} [Quebec]
|
:: VSL ; Ville Saint-Laurent (Ville St-Laurent) - a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada
|
| V.T.T. {m}
|
:: abbreviation of vélo tout terrain
|
| VTT {m}
|
:: initialism of vélo tout terrain: mountain bike
|
| VTT {m}
|
:: initialism of véhicule tout-terrain: an ATV (all terrain vehicle)
|
| vu {prep}
|
:: given (based on)
|
| Vu {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| vue {f}
|
:: sight (something seen)
|
| vue {f}
|
:: sight, eyesight, vision
|
| vue {f}
|
:: view
|
| vue de l'esprit {f} [sometimes, pejorative]
|
:: a creation of the mind, a convenient but artificial way of seeing things, a theoretical view; a figment of the imagination
|
| vue d'ensemble {f}
|
:: overview, overall view, overall picture, bird's-eye view, survey
|
| Vuillermoz {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| vulcain {m}
|
:: red admiral (butterfly: Vanessa atalanta)
|
| Vulcain {prop} {m} [mythology]
|
:: Vulcan [Roman god]
|
| Vulcain {prop} {m} [astronomy, historical]
|
:: Vulcan [hypothetical planet]
|
| vulcanien {adj}
|
:: Vulcanian
|
| vulcaniser {v}
|
:: to vulcanise; vulcanize
|
| vulcanisme {m}
|
:: vulcanism
|
| vulcanisme {m}
|
:: volcanism
|
| vulcanologie {f}
|
:: volcanology (study of volcanoes)
|
| vulcanologique {adj}
|
:: volcanological
|
| vulcanologue {mf}
|
:: volcanologist
|
| vulgaire {adj}
|
:: vulgar, crude
|
| vulgairement {adv}
|
:: commonly, popularly
|
| vulgairement {adv}
|
:: vulgarly
|
| vulgarisateur {adj}
|
:: popularizing
|
| vulgarisateur {m}
|
:: popularizer
|
| vulgarisation {f}
|
:: popular science
|
| vulgariser {v}
|
:: to generalize
|
| vulgarité {f}
|
:: vulgarity (quality of being vulgar)
|
| vulgate {f}
|
:: Common and widespread popular saying
|
| vulgum pecus {m} [colloquial, idiomatic]
|
:: The populace, laymen, or the ignorant
|
| vulnérabilité {f}
|
:: vulnerability (the state of being vulnerable)
|
| vulnérable {adj}
|
:: vulnerable
|
| vulnéraire {adj}
|
:: vulnerary
|
| vulnéraire {m}
|
:: vulnerary
|
| vulpiculture {f}
|
:: the raising of foxes
|
| vulpin {adj}
|
:: vulpine
|
| vulpin {adj} [figuratively]
|
:: vulpine; foxlike
|
| vulpin {m}
|
:: foxtail (grass)
|
| vulpinique {adj} [organic chemistry]
|
:: vulpinic
|
| vulpique {adj} [organic chemistry]
|
:: vulpic
|
| vulvaire {adj} [anatomy]
|
:: vulvar
|
| vulvaire {f} [botany]
|
:: stinking goosefoot, Chenopodium vulvaria
|
| vulve {f}
|
:: vulva
|
| vulvectomie {f}
|
:: vulvectomy
|
| vulvite {f}
|
:: [medicine] vulvitis
|
| vumètre {m}
|
:: VU meter
|
| Vuong {prop}
|
:: surname
|
| vu que {conj}
|
:: given that, seeing that
|
| VUS {n}
|
:: SUV (sport utility vehicle) initialism of véhicule utilitaire sport
|
| vuvuzela {f}
|
:: vuvuzela
|
