French–English dictionary

napolitain

Of, from or relating to the city of Naples, capital and largest city of Campania, Italy, or the surrounding metropolitan city.

Napolitaine

A native or inhabitant of the city of Naples, capital and largest city of Campania, Italy, or the surrounding metropolitan city.

nappe

A cable with many conducting wires running parallel to each other on the same flat plane; often used for internal peripherals in a computer.

nappe de table

A cloth used to cover and protect a table, especially for a dining table.

napperon

(Judaism) A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some married Jewish women.

Narcisse

(Greek mythology) A youth who spurned the love of Echo and fell in love with his own reflection in a pool: in some versions of the myth, he drowned trying to reach it, while in others he sat fixated until a god took pity and transformed him into a flower.

narcissique

(psychology) One who shows extreme love and admiration for themselves.

narcissisme

Excessive love of oneself.

narcolepsie

(pathology) A disorder characterized by sudden and uncontrollable attacks of deep sleep, often brief, sometimes accompanied by paralysis and hallucinations.

narcoterrorisme

Use of terrorist tactics as an element of the traffic in illegal narcotics.

narcotique

(pharmaceutical effect) Inducing sleep; soporific.

narcotiser

(transitive) To use a narcotic in order to make (someone) drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize, to drug. [from 16th c.]

narguer

(transitive) To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner.

narguilé

(recreational inhalants) A pipe with a long flexible tube that draws the smoke through water, traditionally used for smoking tobacco, which is often flavored.

narine

Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.

Narnia

(fantasy) A land in which a series of seven children's books, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis are set.

narratif

Telling a story.

narration

The systematic recitation of an event or series of events.

narratologie

The study of narrative structure.

narrer

(transitive) To relate (a story or series of events) in speech or writing.

Naruto

A city in Tokushima Prefecture, Shikoku, Japan.

NASA

Acronym of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

naseau

Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages.

Nashville

The Nashville warbler, Leiothlypis ruficapilla.

Nassau

The capital city of the Bahamas.

nasse

(fishing) An osier basket that anglers use to hold fish.

nasser

(originally, British, of the police) To contain demonstrators in a confined area.

Natacha

A en given name borrowed from Russian in the twentieth century, diminutive of Natalia and Natalya.

natal

Of or relating to birth.

natation

An act or instance of swimming.

Nathalie

A en given name.

Nathaniel

A en given name.

natif

Born or grown in the region in which it lives or is found; not foreign or imported.

national

Internal to a specific country.

nationale

Pertaining to a nation or country, especially as a whole; affecting, shared by, or existing throughout all of a nation. [from 16th c.]

nationalement

In a way relating to the whole nation.

nationaliste

Of or relating to nationalism.

nationalité

The state of being a citizen; the status of a citizen.

Nativité

(Christianity) The birth of Jesus as described in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke.

natte

A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16th c.]

naturalisation

The action of naturalizing somebody; act of granting citizenship.

naturaliser

(transitive) To grant citizenship to someone not born a citizen.

naturaliste

(philosophy) A person who believes in or advocates the tenets of philosophical or methodological naturalism. [from 16th c.]

nature

Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.

nature sauvage

(uncountable) Uncultivated and unsettled land in its natural state inhabited by wild animals and with vegetation growing wild; (countable) a tract of such land; a waste or wild.

naturel

(music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮. [from 18th c.]

naturisme

The belief in or practice of going nude in social settings, often in mixed-gender groups, specifically either in cultures where this is not the norm or for health reasons.

naturiste

Relating to or believing in the doctrine of naturism, which attributes everything to nature.

naufragé

Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.

naufrager

To wreck a boat through a collision or other mishap.

naupathie

(medicine) seasickness

nauséabond

(pathology, not comparable) Of, relating to, or having dyspepsia or indigestion.

nausée

A feeling of illness or discomfort in the digestive system, usually characterized by a strong urge to vomit.

nauséeuse

Having an urge to vomit.

nauséeux

(proscribed) Afflicted with nausea; sick. [from 19th c.]

nautile

A marine mollusc, of the family Nautilidae native to the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean, which has tentacles and a spiral shell with a series of air-filled chambers, of which Nautilus is the type genus.

nautique

Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen.

navajo

A member of the Navajo people, currently the largest Native American tribe in North America.

naval

(nautical) Of or relating to a navy.

Navarre

An autonomous community and province in northern Spain.

navet

An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure, has failed at something or incapable of success.

navetteur

(US, UK, Canada) To and from work and home.

navigation à voile

Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise

navigation la voile

Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise

naviguer

(transitive, computing) To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser.

navire abandonné (en mer)

(uncountable, specifically, law) Property abandoned at sea with no hope of recovery and no expectation of being returned to its owner; (countable) an item of such property, especially a ship.

navire amiral

(nautical, military) The ship occupied by the fleet's commander (usually an admiral); it denotes this by flying his flag.

navire d'accompagnement

A ship accompanying another.

navire d'esclaves

(nautical) A ship used to transport slaves.

navire de guerre

(nautical) A ship equipped with heavy artillery.

navrant

(formal) Causing pain or distress; harrying.

navré

(of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.

Nazaréen

A person from Nazareth.

Nazaréenne

A person from Nazareth.

Nazareth

A city in northern Israel.

naze

(informal) Cheap, of poor quality.

nazi

(historical) Of or pertaining to the Nazi Party specifically, or to Nazism, neo-Nazism, or neo-Nazis more generally.

nazie

(historical) A member of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP). [1930]

nazisme

The ideology of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP), being a form of fascism characterised by Adolf Hitler's cult of personality, hate propaganda, white supremacy, extreme bigotry (especially antisemitism and racism), eugenics, mass violence, genocide, ethnonationalist territorial expansion (Lebensraum) and state capitalism.

naziste

(historical) Of or pertaining to the Nazi Party specifically, or to Nazism, neo-Nazism, or neo-Nazis more generally.

nævus

A naevus, a pigmented, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy spot on the skin.

NB

(Canada) Initialism of New Brunswick: a province of Canada.

né

Having from birth (or as if from birth) a certain quality or character; innate; inherited.

ne ... pas

Negates the meaning of the modified verb.

ne + verb + rien

Not any thing; no thing.

ne comprendre pas

(transitive) To fail to understand.

ne pas aimer

(transitive) To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like. [from 16th c.]

ne posant aucun problème

Not problematic (presenting problems) or not controversial.

ne vaut rien

Having no worth or use; without value.

ne...que

Only.

néandertalien

Of or pertaining to Homo neanderthalensis.

néanmoins

(idiom) Anyway; nevertheless; nonetheless.

néant

(philosophy) The state of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing.

nébuleuse

(astronomy) A cloud in outer space consisting of gas or dust (e.g. a cloud formed after a star explodes).

nébuleux

Uncertain; unclear.

nébulosité

(figurative) Of information, a writing style, etc.: the property of being obscure.

nec plus ultra

(idiom, singulare tantum) Best of the best; something superlative; the very best.

nécessaire

Gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose.

nécessairement

Inevitably; of necessity.

nécessité

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite.

nécessiter

To necessitate, demand, exact; to make appropriate

nécessiteux

Poor; destitute; in need.

nécro

A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete) , the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.

nécrologe

A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time.

nécrologie

A listing of people who have died during a specific period of time.

nécromancie

Loosely, any sorcery or witchcraft, especially involving death or the dead, particularly sorcery involving raising or reanimating the dead.

nécromancien

A person who practices or performs necromancy.

nécromancier

A person who practices or performs necromancy.

nécromant

A person who practices or performs necromancy.

nécrophage

An animal that eats dead and decaying flesh.

nécrophore

A necrophore, or burying beetle.

nécropole

(chiefly, historical, also, figuratively) A cemetery; especially a large one in or near a city.

nécropsie

(medicine) The pathological examination of a corpse, particularly to determine cause of death. [from 19th c.]

nécrose

(pathology) The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.

nectaire

(botany) A gland that secretes nectar

necton

(zoology) All organisms in the ocean that are capable of swimming independently of currents.

née

Used when giving the maiden name of a woman.

néerlandais

Of or pertaining to the Netherlands, the Dutch people or the Dutch language.

Néerlandaise

(collective) The people of the Netherlands, or one of certain ethnic groups descending from the people of the Netherlands.

nef

(historical) A large European sailing vessel of the 14th to 17th centuries similar to a caravel but square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.

néfaste

Causing damage or harm.

négatif

(linguistics, logic) Denying a proposition; negating a concept.

négation

An assertion of untruth.

négationnisme

The practice of rejecting propositions which are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence, and often of seeking to influence policy processes and outcomes accordingly.

négativisme

A persistent pessimistic or skeptical attitude.

négligé

Suffering from neglect; uncared-for.

négligeable

Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.

négligeant

Performed in a careless or indifferent manner as a thing of rote.

négligemment

Giving the appearance of carelessness; relaxedly.

négligence

Lack of care; the state or quality of being careless.

négligence coupable

(legal, uncountable) The breach of a duty of care: the failure to exercise a standard of care that a reasonable person would have in a similar situation.

négligence médicale

The improper treatment of a patient by a physician that results in injury or loss.

négligent

Casually careless or indifferent; showing a lack of concern; nonchalant.

négliger

(transitive) To be wanting to, to be insufficient for, to disappoint, to desert; to disappoint one's expectations.

négoce

(countable) A particular instance of buying or selling.

négociable

Open to negotiation or bargaining.

négociant

One who negotiates.

négociateur

One who negotiates.

négociation

The process of achieving agreement through discussion.

négociations

(usually, in the plural) Meeting to discuss a particular matter.

négociatrice

One who negotiates.

négocier

(transitive) To entertain with food or drink, especially at one's own expense; to show hospitality to; to pay for as celebration or reward. [from 16th c.]

négocier un prix de gros

(finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.

négous

(historical) A ruler of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the king of Ethiopia before 1974.

nègre

(now, offensive) A black slave or servant, and hence any slave, servant, inferior, or child.

nègre libre

An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person. [from 17th c.]

nègre littéraire

A professional writer who is paid to write material that is officially credited to another person; one who writes on behalf of someone else, often for a celebrity.

nègre marron

An escaped black slave of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person. [from 17th c.]

négresse

(dated, literary, now, offensive, and, an, _) A black female.

négrier

A person engaged in the slave trade; a person who buys, sells, transports, or owns slaves.