debutante

See also: débutante and debûtante

English

Alternative forms

• débutante
• debûtante

Etymology

From French débutante.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɛbjuːˈtɑːnt/, /ˌdeɪbjuːˈtɑːnt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

debutante (plural debutantes)

1. A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society.

   Synonym: (informal) deb

2. A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment.

Coordinate terms

• debutant

Derived terms

• celebutante
• celebutard
• debutantism
• debutard
• postdebutante
• predebutante
• subdebutante

 

Translations

young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society

• Japanese: デビュタント (debyutanto)

female debutant

• Bengali: অভিষিক্ত (bn) c (obhiśikto)
• Dutch: debutante (nl) f
• German: Debütantin (de)
• Hebrew: מופיעה לראשונה
• Japanese: デビュタント (debyutanto)
• Polish: debiutantka (pl) f

Further reading

• debutante on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “debutante”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• unabetted

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French débutante or from debutant +‎ -e.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeː.byˈtɑn.tə/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: de‧bu‧tan‧te
• Rhymes: -ɑntə

Noun

debutante f (plural debutantes, masculine debutant)

1. a debutante, a woman who debuts

Related terms

• debuteren
• debuut

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.buˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.buˈtɐ̃.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /de.buˈtɐ̃.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /dɨ.buˈtɐ̃.tɨ/ [dɨ.βuˈtɐ̃.tɨ]

Adjective

debutante m or f (plural debutantes)

1. novice, first-time

Noun

debutante m or f by sense (plural debutantes)

1. beginner, first-timer
2. debutant (especially a girl celebrating her fifteenth birthday)

Spanish

Adjective

debutante m or f (masculine and feminine plural debutantes)

1. novice, first-time

Noun

debutante m or f by sense (plural debutantes)

1. debutant, beginner, first-timer

Further reading

• “debutante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10