Words 3301–3400
cité
city; citizenship; a fortified city, city-state, or historic city centre specifically; a municipality with city rather than town status; housing estate; complex of buildings or district set aside for a specific purpose; campus
Noun
renvoyer
to resend, retransmit; to send again; to send back (to give back to the original sender); to give back, throw back, post back, bounce back, swing back etc.; to put off, postpone (an appointment, a duty); to reflect (i.e. of a reflective surface); to echo (of sound, to come back); to fire, dismiss, expel a student; to refer (somebody to something); to remind (somebody of something)
Verb
illumination
enlightenment (philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge); illumination, lighting
Noun
débordement
flooding; overflowing, overflow; overshooting (of weapon); passing (act of hitting the ball past a player who is at net)
Noun
quartier
quarter, district (part of town), neighbourhood; impoverished neighbourhood, often suburban; piece, chunk; segment (of fruit), quarter (of beef); quarter; quarter, mercy
Noun
avoisiner
to neighbor/neighbour (to be near to, or the neighbor of); to border on (be similar to)
Verb
disposer
to organize, to arrange, to distribute in a certain fashion; to prepare (something) for an occasion, to incline (someone) towards; to prepare oneself for, to be about to; to have at one's disposal or available; to have access to; to use someone to do one's biddings; to leave, to go; to make use of one's right of dismembering, selling or otherwise dispose of a certain owned item; to prepare psychologically; to take measures, to decree
Verb
aboutir
to lead to, to end up in, to reach; to lead to, to have the consequence of; to reach a conclusion, to succeed; to touch by one end
Verb
navette
shuttle (in weaving); shuttle (land vehicle); shuttle (space vehicle); incense boat; a kind of biscuit from Marseille, flavoured with orange blossom
Noun
occupation
occupation (act of occupying, of being an occupant); occupation (the occupying of a territory); occupation (something that one spends one's time on, such as a job or a hobby)
Noun
usage
usage, use; the ways and contexts in which spoken and written words are actually used, determined by a lexicographer's intuition or from corpus analysis (as opposed to correct or proper use of language, proclaimed by some authority)
Noun
éclat
brilliance, shine, lustre; fragment; Strong reaction; scandal; clap, peal, burst (of thunder, laughter); tinder, kindling
Noun
boucle
loop (line returning to its origin); earring; buckle (of a belt, etc.); curl (of hair); ringlet; loop; loop jump; loop the loop (aircraft manoeuvre)
Noun
anneau
ring (circular shape); ring (round piece of (precious) metal worn around the finger); ring; cringle
Noun
représenter
to represent (to be the representative of); to represent (to show, as a replacement); to represent; to re-present; to present again
Verb
bancal
bow-legged, bandy-legged (of person); rickety, wobbly (of table etc.); shaky, unclear, illogical
Adjective
reliure
binding (the spine of a book where the pages are held together); bookbinding (the process of assembling a book)
Noun
cartonner
to cover with cardboard; (of a book) to print in hardcover; to attack, vigorously critique; to possess sexually; to hit the jackpot; to be in danger, exposed, etc.; to get into a collision, a car accident
Verb
jusqu'en
jusque + en
chiner
to dye and interweave fabrics into cloud motif; to take the piss out of; to look around, to lurk; to bargain-hunt, to antique (informal)
Verb
adonner
to devote oneself; to get along well, be compatible; to get used to; to happen, come to pass (by chance), to happen (by coincidence); (of the wind) to blow in a favorable direction, allowing the sails to luff
Verb