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Definition of déraciné in English: déracinéadjective deʀasinedeɪˈrasɪneɪdāˌräsiˈnā (of a person) uprooted from their natural environment; deracinated. the self-consciousness of déraciné Americans Example sentencesExamples - He saw the decadence that overtook Indian culture, but he admits he was déraciné.
- "I was déraciné; an exile from the Jewish community and, I felt, not really accepted in the Christian community."
- Henry James was a difficult case for him to contemplate because each, in his own way, was 'déraciné'.
- He talked of Les Cosmopolites and the literary scene in France before the war, of their obsession with foreign travel… the almost sexual thrill of being out of your own country: an outsider, déraciné, worldly, nomadic.
noundeʀasinedeɪˈrasɪneɪdāˌräsiˈnā A person who has been or feels deracinated. he became a déraciné, a nomad Example sentencesExamples - It follows that because he is spiritually alienated from his society, he is a déraciné, an individual without roots, going from one locale to another.
- Conrad, of course, was a déraciné, which no doubt counts for a good deal in the intensity with which he renders his favourite theme of isolation.
- Maurice, on reaching the age to choose a career, deliberately turned towards the provinces - he who was a déraciné, born of an Alsatian father and a Savoyard mother, and educated first at Paris, then at Dijon.
Definition of déraciné in US English: déracinéadjectivedāˌräsiˈnā Uprooted or displaced from one's geographical or social environment. the self-consciousness of déraciné Americans Example sentencesExamples - "I was déraciné; an exile from the Jewish community and, I felt, not really accepted in the Christian community."
- Henry James was a difficult case for him to contemplate because each, in his own way, was 'déraciné'.
- He saw the decadence that overtook Indian culture, but he admits he was déraciné.
- He talked of Les Cosmopolites and the literary scene in France before the war, of their obsession with foreign travel… the almost sexual thrill of being out of your own country: an outsider, déraciné, worldly, nomadic.
noundāˌräsiˈnā A person who has been or feels displaced. Example sentencesExamples - Conrad, of course, was a déraciné, which no doubt counts for a good deal in the intensity with which he renders his favourite theme of isolation.
- It follows that because he is spiritually alienated from his society, he is a déraciné, an individual without roots, going from one locale to another.
- Maurice, on reaching the age to choose a career, deliberately turned towards the provinces - he who was a déraciné, born of an Alsatian father and a Savoyard mother, and educated first at Paris, then at Dijon.
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