président
Appearance
French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin praesidentem.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /pʁe.zi.dɑ̃/
Audio: (file) - Homophones: présidant, présidents
Noun
[edit]président m (plural présidents, feminine présidente)
- president
- Voici le nouveau président de l’association.
- This is the new president of the association.
- (of an association, board, or meeting) chairperson
- (of a legislative body) Speaker
- le président de la Chambre des communes
- the Speaker of the House of Commons
Synonyms
[edit]Of a meeting:
Of a deliberative assembly:
- (Canada, obsolete) orateur
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → German: Präsident
- → Romanian: prezident
- → Russian: президент (prezident), президе́нтъ (prezidént) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]président
Further reading
[edit]- “président”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “président” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
Paronyms
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Norman
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin praesidēns.
Noun
[edit]président m (plural présidents)
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