French–English dictionary

pressentiment

(idiomatic) An instinct or intuition; an immediate or basic feeling or reaction without a logical rationale.

pressentir

To foreshadow vaguely.

presser

(transitive) To make someone speed up or make something happen quicker.

pressing

(in the plural) A professional laundry or dry cleaner (business).

pression

Liquid, especially beer or other alcohol, drawn from a cask or keg rather than a bottle or can.

pression des pairs

Inducement or influence by one's peers.

pression sociale

Inducement or influence by one's peers.

pressoir

(countable) A device used to apply pressure to an item.

pressurer

(transitive) To remove something with difficulty, or apparent difficulty.

pressurisation

The act or process of increasing pressure within a volume of space.

preste

Quick and light in movement or action.

prestidigitateur

One who performs feats of prestidigitation; a sleight-of-hand artist.

prestidigitatrice

One who performs feats of prestidigitation; a sleight-of-hand artist.

prestige

The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.

prestigieux

Of high prestige.

présumé

Appearing to be the most probable, often with some preparations starting to be made for it.

présumer

To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof

présupposer

To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof

prêt

(of food) Ready, fully cooked.

prêt à l'emploi

In condition for use.

prêt sur gage

An instance of pawning something.

prête

Content, willing, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).

prête-nom

A person acting as the public face of some other, covert group.

prête-plume

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.

prétendant

One who claims; one who makes a claim.

prétendante

A claimant to a throne or the office of a ruler; originally in a neutral sense, but now always applied to a claimant who is held to have no just title.

prétendre

(transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.

prétendre à

(transitive, obsolete) To intend; to design, to plot; to attempt.

prétendu

Supposed but doubtful.

prétendument

According to someone's allegation.

prétentieux

Having an excessively favourable opinion of one's abilities, appearance, etc.; egotistical and vain.

prétention

(countable, or, uncountable) The action of pretending; false or simulated show or appearance; false or hypocritical assertion or representation.

prêter

(transitive) To attribute (a cause or characteristic) to someone or something.

prêter attention

(transitive) To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.

prétérit

(grammar) A grammatical tense or verb form serving to denote events that took place or were completed in the past.

prêteur

One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.

prêteur sur gages

A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed.

prêteuse

One who lends, especially money; specifically, a bank or other entity that specializes in granting loans.

prêteuse sur gages

A person who makes monetary loans at interest, taking personal property as security – which may be sold if not redeemed.

prétexte

(countable, uncountable) An explanation designed to avoid or alleviate guilt or negative judgment; a plea offered in extenuation of a fault.

prétexter

(transitive) To make a claim as justification or proof; to make an assertion without proof.

prêtre

A male member of a clergy; especially, an ordained (male) Christian minister.

prêtresse

A cleric; especially, an ordained (male or female) Christian minister.

prêtrise

The role or office of a priest.

preums

(informal) Used to claim this right.

preuve

(countable) An effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

preux

Marked by mettle or bravery; courageous.

prévalence

(epidemiology) The total number of cases of a disease in a given statistical population at a given time, divided by the number of individuals in that population.

prévalent

Superior in frequency or dominant.

prévaloir

(intransitive) To be superior in strength, dominance, influence, or frequency; to have or gain the advantage over others; to have the upper hand; to outnumber others.

prévaricateur

One who prevaricates.

prévarication

Willful neglect of one's duty.

prévaricatrice

One who prevaricates.

prévenance

Thoughtful and considerate attention.

prévenant

Characterised by careful and conscious thought.

prévenir

(transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of.

préventif

Made so as to deter an anticipated unpleasant situation.

prévisible

(informal) inevitable; settled

prévision

An estimation of a future condition.

prévisualisation

(computing) A facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

prévisualiser

(computing, transitive) To show something in advance, a facility for viewing and checking a document or photo, or changes to it, before saving or printing it.

prévoir

(transitive) To know of (something) before it happens; to expect.

prévôt

(UK, military, _, slang, obsolete) A provost cell: a military cell or prison.

prévoyance

The ability to foresee or prepare wisely for the future.

prévoyant

Considering the future with respect to one's own plans or deeds; showing anticipation.

prévu

Not surprising; expected.

Priam

(Greek mythology) The king of Troy during the Iliad

priapique

Phallic. [from 1786]

Pride

A festival or other event, usually involving a march or parade and organized annually within a city, to celebrate the experiences and identities of LGBTQ people and to promote their interests and rights. [from late 20th c.]

prier

To beg or request for (something).

prière

A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.

prière de

(often, with yes) Used as an affirmative to an offer.

prières

A meeting held for the express purpose of praying.

prieur

In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.

prieure

The head of a priory, or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.

prieuresse

A nun in charge of a priory (usually lower in rank than an abbess); mother superior.

prima facie

(legal) Apparently correct; not needing proof unless evidence to the contrary is shown.

primaire

First or earliest in a group or series.

primat

(zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including apes (which include humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.

primate

(zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including apes (which include humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.

primauté

The state or condition of being prime or first, as in time, place, rank, etc.

prime

An extra sum given as a premium, e.g. to an employee or to a shareholder.

primeur

(chiefly, British, Commonwealth, Irish) A person who sells fresh vegetables and fruit, normally from a relatively small shop.

primevère

(botany) Any plant of the genus Primula; the primroses.

primitif

(linguistics) An original or primary word; a word not derived from another, as opposed to derivative.

primitive

(calculus) A function whose derivative is a given function; an indefinite integral

primitivisme

Any of a group of related styles in the arts, influenced by a belief in the superiority of primitive forms.

primitivité

The state or quality of being primitive.

primo

Before anything else; firstly.

primogéniture

The state of being the firstborn of the children of the same parents.

primordial

Characterized by major progress or overcoming some obstacle.

prims

(informal) Used to claim this right.

prince charmant

(informal, dated, or, humorous) An exceptionally good-looking and sexually attractive person, particularly a man.

prince-électeur

(historical) A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.

princesse-électrice

(historical) A German prince entitled to elect the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire; a prince-elector.

princier

Relating to a prince.

principal

(chiefly, UK, Irish) A male headteacher.

principalement

Chiefly; for the most part. [from 17th c.]

principales attractions

(often, in the plural) Something worth seeing; a spectacle, either good or bad.

principe

An opinion, belief, or principle that is held as absolute truth by someone or especially an organization.

principe directeur

A non-specific rule or principle that provides direction to action or behaviour.

Pringle

An individual potato snack of the Pringles brand.

printemps

(countable, uncountable) The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.

prion

(molecular biology) A self-propagating misfolded conformer of a protein that is responsible for a number of diseases that affect the brain and other neural tissue.

priorisation

The process of assigning priorities to things or tasks.

prioritaire

Main; principal; chief; placed ahead of others.

pris

In a romantic or sexual relationship.

pris la main dans le sac

(slang) Caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do.

pris sur le fait

(slang) Caught in the act of doing something one shouldn't do.

Priscille

A en given name of biblical origin.

prise

(countable) Something which is captured or caught.

prise d'air

(underwater diving) A hollow tube, held in the mouth, or mounted on and opening into a diving mask, used by swimmers for breathing underwater.

prise de contrôle

(economics) The purchase of one company by another; a merger without the formation of a new company, especially where some stakeholders in the purchased company oppose the purchase.

prise de décision

The process of reaching a decision.

prise de force

Initialism of power take-off, a powered shaft for driving auxiliary equipment.

prise de photos

A photography session.

prise de sein

A breastfeeding baby's connection to the breast.

prise jack

A mechanical device used to raise and (temporarily) support a heavy object, now especially to lift one side of a motor vehicle when (e.g.) changing a tyre. [from 17th c.]

priser

(transitive, of a person or thing) To consider to be precious; to value highly.

prismatique

Of or pertaining to a prism; having the form of a prism; containing one or more prisms.

prison

A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

prisonnier

Something that has been captured; a captive.

privation

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.

privatisation

The transfer of a company or organization from government to private ownership and control.

privatiser

(economics) To release government control (of a business or industry) to private industry.

privé

A house of prostitution.

privé de

Deprived of, stripped of, robbed of.

privée

Protected from view or disturbance by others; secluded; not publicly accessible.

priver

(transitive) Used with “of”, to take something away from (someone) and keep it away; to deny someone something.

privilège

A privilege or possession held or claimed exclusively by a certain person, group or class.

privilégié

Having special privileges.

privilégier

(archaic, transitive) To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize

prix

A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.

prix du sang

(historical, especially in Germanic, _, legal) Compensation thus determined and paid; a reparative payment.

pro-

agreeing with; supporting; favouring

pro-choix

Supportive in general of a person's right to choose; supportive of self-determination, bodily integrity, and individual sovereignty.

proactif

Acting in advance to deal with an expected change or difficulty

probabiliste

(mathematics, probability theory) Of, pertaining to, or derived using probability.

probabilité

(formal, rare) The state or quality of being likely to occur; likelihood, probability.

probable

Probable; having a greater-than-even chance of occurring.

probablement

As can be supported or proven by sound logical deduction, evidence, and precedent, but without absolute certainty.

probant

Effective as proof or evidence.

probiotique

Describing any dietary supplement that contains live bacteria for therapeutic purposes.

problématique

A problem or difficulty in a particular field of study.

problématiser

(transitive) To consider something as if it were a problem.

problème

(figurative) Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.

proboscide

(anatomy) An elongated tube from the head or connected to the mouth, of an animal.

procédé

A particular method for performing a task.

procédural

Related to procedure.

procédure

(legal) Applying to methods of enforcement and rules of procedure.