French1 adjectiveFrench2 noun
FrenchFrench1 /frentʃ/ adjective 
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- French cuisine
- Aren't you in my French class?
- I stayed with a French family in Paris.
WORD SETS
accented, adjectiveAfrikaans, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounArabic, nounBengali, nounbilingual, adjectiveCantonese, nounChinese, nounconversant, adjectivecreole, nounDanish, noundialect, noundictation, noundirect method, noundub, verbDutch, nounEnglish, nounEsperanto, nounFarsi, nounFlemish, nounfluent, adjectiveFrancophone, adjectiveFranglais, nounFrench, adjectiveGaelic, nounGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGreek, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHindi, nounIndo-European, adjectiveItalian, nounItalo-, prefixJapanese, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectivelinguist, nounlinguistics, nounMandarin, nounMaori, nounmodern language, nounmonolingual, adjectivemother tongue, nounmultilingual, adjectivenative speaker, nounoral, nounpatois, nounPersian, nounPolish, adjectivePortuguese, nounRomance language, nounRomany, nounRussian, nounSanskrit, nounsecond language, nounSemitic, adjectivesign, nounsign, verbsign language, nounSinhalese, nounSpanish, nounspeak, verb-speak, suffixspeaker, nounSwedish, nountransliterate, verbTurkish, nounUrdu, nounusage, nounvernacular, nounvocabulary, nounWelsh, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
I have applied for French citizenship. Turkish nationals who are living in the UK He has British nationality. Who’s your chemistry professor? They started talking in Spanish.
· I noticed that he had a Spanish accent.
· a soldier in the Spanish army
(=born in or as a citizen of Australia etc)
I have applied for French citizenship.· I have a history class at nine o'clock today.
· Chillies are used a lot in Mexican cookery.
· Fresh herbs are used a lot in Thai cooking.
· The Spanish custom is to add the mother’s surname after the father’s.
· Savings and loan associations are the American equivalent of Britain’s building societies.
· I knew I wouldn’t pass the German exam.
· Most of the pupils passed their science examination with flying colours.
· The restaurant serves delicious Italian food.
· Several battles took place involving American forces.
· The UK government has offered to send aid.
· The science homework was really hard.
(=goods from Japan, France etc)· Japanese imports rose by 5% last year.
(=a sexual kiss using your tongue)· The couple shared a lingering French kiss.
Turkish nationals who are living in the UK He has British nationality.· From the French perspective, therefore, 1934 marks a major turning point.
· He was a student of English poetry.
Who’s your chemistry professor? They started talking in Spanish.· He wrote the first English translation of Homer’s 'Iliad'.
· This operation was undertaken by British troops.
· The restaurant has a wide selection of French wines.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► broken English/French etc► be of French/Russian/Italian etc extraction► fluent French/Japanese etc► the French Antilles► Middle English/French etc► pardon my French► pidgin English/French etc► the French/Italian/English Riviera
relating to France, its people, or its language: - He was not a man to show public affection on foreign soil.
- Will your grandchildren forgive us, Erich, if we surrender our armies on foreign soil without a fight?
an excellent French wineFrench1 adjectiveFrench2 noun
FrenchFrench2 noun WORD ORIGINFrench2
Origin:
Old English frencisc, from Latin Franca ‘Frank’; ➔ FRANK1EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- I had to take two years of French in high school.
- Patric's family speaks French at home.
WORD SETS
aboriginal, adjectiveaboriginal, nounaborigine, nounAfghan, nounAfrican, adjectiveAfrican, nounAfrican American, nounAfrikaner, nounAfro-, prefixAmerican, adjectiveAmerican, nounAmericanize, verbanglicize, verbAnglo-, prefixanglophile, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounAussie, nounAustralian, nounAustrian, nounAustro-, prefixbarbarian, nounBedouin, nounBenelux, nounBengali, nounbirth, nounblack, adjectiveblack, nounBoer, nounBr., brave, nounBrit, nounBritish, adjectiveBritisher, nounBriton, nounCeltic, adjectiveChinese, adjectivecontinental, adjectivecosmopolitan, adjectivecultural, adjectiveDane, nounDanish, adjectiveDutch, adjectiveDutchman, nouneastern, adjectiveEgyptian, adjectiveEgyptian, nounEnglish, adjectiveEnglishman, nounEnglishwoman, nounEskimo, nounEurasian, adjectiveEurasian, nounEuro-, prefixEuropean, nounEuropean, adjectiveFr, Franco-, prefixFrench, nounFrenchman, nounFrenchwoman, nounGallic, adjectiveGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGraeco-, prefixGreco-, prefixGreek, adjectiveGreek, noungypsy, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHellene, nounHellenic, adjectivehighland, adjectiveHighlander, nounHispanic, adjective-i, suffixIberian, adjectiveIndian, nounIndian, adjectiveIndo-, prefixinsular, adjectiveinternational, adjectiveinternationally, adverbinternecine, adjectiveIrish, adjectiveIrishman, nounIrishwoman, noun-ish, suffixIslam, nounislander, nounIsraeli, adjectiveIsraeli, nounIsraelite, nounItalian, nounJohn Bull, nounkiwi, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectiveManx, adjectiveMaori, nounmestizo, nounmetropolitan, adjectiveMexican, adjectiveMexican, nounMoorish, adjectivemother country, nounmotherland, nounnation, nounnational anthem, nounnational costume, nounnational dress, nounnationalism, nounnationalist, nounnationalistic, adjectivenationality, nounnation state, nounnative, adjectivenative, nounNative American, nounnon-white, nounNordic, adjectiveNorse, adjectiveNorseman, nounnortherner, nounoverseas, adverboverseas, adjectivePakistani, nounparentage, nounPersian, adjectivePersian, nounPole, nounPolish, adjectiveRasta, nounRastafarian, nounRastaman, nounRussian, adjectiveRussian, nounSaxon, nounScot, nounScots, adjectiveScotsman, nounScotswoman, nounScottish, adjectiveSherpa, nounSinhalese, nounSino-, prefixsoutherner, nounSoviet, adjectiveSpaniard, nounSpanish, adjectiveSwede, nounSwedish, adjectiveSwiss, adjectiveTeutonic, adjectiveTurk, nounTurkish, adjectivewestern, adjectiveWesterner, nounwesternized, adjectivewhite, nounYiddish, noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES I have applied for French citizenship. Turkish nationals who are living in the UK He has British nationality. Who’s your chemistry professor? They started talking in Spanish.
· I noticed that he had a Spanish accent.
· a soldier in the Spanish army
(=born in or as a citizen of Australia etc)
I have applied for French citizenship.· I have a history class at nine o'clock today.
· Chillies are used a lot in Mexican cookery.
· Fresh herbs are used a lot in Thai cooking.
· The Spanish custom is to add the mother’s surname after the father’s.
· Savings and loan associations are the American equivalent of Britain’s building societies.
· I knew I wouldn’t pass the German exam.
· Most of the pupils passed their science examination with flying colours.
· The restaurant serves delicious Italian food.
· Several battles took place involving American forces.
· The UK government has offered to send aid.
· The science homework was really hard.
(=goods from Japan, France etc)· Japanese imports rose by 5% last year.
(=a sexual kiss using your tongue)· The couple shared a lingering French kiss.
Turkish nationals who are living in the UK He has British nationality.· From the French perspective, therefore, 1934 marks a major turning point.
· He was a student of English poetry.
Who’s your chemistry professor? They started talking in Spanish.· He wrote the first English translation of Homer’s 'Iliad'.
· This operation was undertaken by British troops.
· The restaurant has a wide selection of French wines.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► pardon/excuse my FrenchPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► broken English/French etc► be of French/Russian/Italian etc extraction► fluent French/Japanese etc► the French Antilles► Middle English/French etc► pardon my French► pidgin English/French etc► the French/Italian/English Riviera
1the French [plural] people from France2[uncountable] the language used in France, and some other countries: - The territory was originally colonized by the French.
- He was not a man to show public affection on foreign soil.
- Will your grandchildren forgive us, Erich, if we surrender our armies on foreign soil without a fight?
How do you ask for directions in French?3pardon/excuse my French spoken used to say sorry for swearing