French–English dictionary

Valens

a Roman cognomen

Valentin

An English and Scottish surname derived from the male given name.

Valentine

A en given name.

valériane

(uncountable) The root of Valeriana officinalis, used in herbal medicine.

Valérie

A en given name.

Valérien

a Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius Licinius Valerianus, a Roman emperor

Valéry

A en given name of mostly historical use in English.

valet

(pejorative) Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else.

valet de chambre

(professional wrestling) A female performer in professional wrestling, acting as either a manager or personal chaperone; often used to attract and titillate male members of the audience.

valet de pied

A man in waiting; a male servant whose duties are to attend the door, the carriage, the table, etc.

valétudinaire

Frequently ill or in poor health; weakly.

valeur

(statistics) A value in a statistical sample which does not fit a pattern that describes most other data points; specifically, a value that lies 1.5 IQR beyond the upper or lower quartile.

valeur par défaut

(often, attributive) A value used when none has been given; a tentative value or standard that is presumed.

Valhalla

(Norse mythology) The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.

Valhalle

(Norse mythology) The home of half of all warriors who died gloriously in battle as well as many of the Æsir.

validateur

One who validates.

validation

An approval, by an authority, generally one that makes something valid.

valide

Acceptable, proper or correct; in accordance with the rules.

valider

(transitive, computing) To confirm by activating a button marked OK.

validisme

(uncountable) Discrimination against people with disabilities in favor of those without. [from late 20th c.]

valise

A large travelling case usually made of leather, and opening into two equal sections.

valkyrie

(Norse mythology) Any of the female attendants of Odin, figures said to guide fallen warriors from the battlefield to Valhalla.

vallée

An elongated depression cast between hills or mountains, often with a river flowing through it.

vallon

(mainly, Britain, slightly dated outside Yorkshire etc.) A valley, often in an otherwise hilly area.

vallonné

(of a landscape) Abundant in hills; having many hills.

Valmont

A surname from French

valoir

(transitive) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case

valoir la peine

Making a fair equivalent of, repaying or compensating.

valoir le coup

Worth doing; worth the time, effort, etc.

valoriser

To determine or estimate the value of; to judge the worth of.

valser

(intransitive, transitive) To dance the waltz (with).

valseuses

(uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.

valve

A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a space, such as a pipe, manifold, or plenum.

valvule

(anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction.

vamp

A woman who seduces.

vampire

(by extension) Any oppressive thing or person; a burden.

van

(UK) A motor vehicle for transporting horses.

Vancouver

A seaport, the largest city in British Columbia, Canada.

Vandale

(historical) A member of an ancient east Germanic tribe famous for sacking Rome.

vandalisme

Willful damage to or destruction of any property, such as graffiti or defacement.

vandames

(slang, with the) The police, considered as a group entity.

Vanessa

A en given name.

vanité

(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris. [from 17th c.]

vaniteux

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

vanne

A sharply humorous comment; a wisecrack.

vanneau huppé

Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae, within family Charadriidae.

vanner

(UK, slang, transitive) To tire out, exhaust; to beat up and use up (something), leaving it worn out and damaged.

vantail

(plural leaves or leafs) A moveable panel, e.g. of a bridge or door, originally one that hinged but now also applied to other forms of movement.

vantard

Tending to boast or brag.

vantardise

A prideful boasting or bragging.

vanter

(intransitive) To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself.

vapeur

The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.

vapeur d'eau

The suspended condensate (cloud) formed by water vapour when it encounters colder air.

vaporeux

Of or relating to vapour; also, having the characteristics or consistency of vapour.

vaporisateur

(countable) A pressurized container; an atomizer.

vaporiser

(transitive) To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something.

varech

Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).

vareniki

Boiled dumplings stuffed with potato, cheese, or other filling; a serving of these; .

varenyky

Boiled dumplings stuffed with potato, cheese, or other filling; a serving of these; .

varia

(countable) A collection of writings on various subjects or topics; an anthology.

variable

(linguistics) That can be inflected.

variable booléenne

(logic, computing) A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.

variance

(statistics) The second central moment in probability.

variante

An alternative tangential, subordinate, or secondary variant form of a word or morpheme.

variateur

A rheostat that is used to vary the intensity of a domestic electric light

variation

The amount of change towards or away from something.

varié

Having diverse characteristics, abilities or appearances.

variété

(mathematics) A Hausdorff topological space that looks locally like the "ordinary" Euclidean space \mathbb{R}^n.

variolé

having pockmarks

variqueux

(usually of a vein or set of veins) Abnormally swollen, dilated or knotty.

varon

A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.

varron

A lesion under the skin of cattle, caused by the larva of a bot fly of genus Hypoderma.

varve

(geology) An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.

vasculaire

(anatomy) Relating to the flow of fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap, through the body of an animal or plant, or to the vessels that carry such fluids

vascularite

(pathology) A group of diseases featuring inflammation of the wall of blood vessels.

vase

(uncountable) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

vasectomie

(surgery) The surgical incision of all or part of the vas deferens as a means of male sterilization.

vaseline

Petroleum jelly.

vaseux

Covered or splashed with, or full of, mud.

vasodilatation

Dilation or widening of the blood vessels.

vasomoteur

Of or pertaining to the regulation of the diameter of blood vessels.

vassal

The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.

vaste

Wide, broad, affecting or touching upon many things.

vatican

Relating to the Vatican City state.

vaticiner

To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner.

vaudeville

(historical, uncountable) A style of multi-act theatrical entertainment which originated from France and flourished in Europe and North America from the 1880s through the 1920s.

vaudou

Any of a group of related religious practices found chiefly in and around the Caribbean, particularly in Haiti and Louisiana.

Vaughan

A city in Ontario, Canada.

vaurien

A person of little worth or usefulness.

vautour

Any of several carrion-eating birds of the families Accipitridae and Cathartidae.

VBL

(military) Acronym of w:light armoured vehicle (a type of military armoured car).

VDM

(Internet slang, text messaging, vulgar) Initialism of fuck my life (expressing despairing annoyance).

Vé

In Norse mythology, one of two brothers of Odin.

veau

A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.

vecteur vitesse

(physics) A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, combining speed with a directional component.

véda

(Hinduism) Any of a large body of texts originating in Ancient India. They form the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism.

vedette

A word (or compound term) used as the title of a list entry or section, particularly in a dictionary, encyclopedia, or thesaurus.

Véga

(star) The brightest star in the constellation Lyra; Alpha (α) Lyrae. It forms one corner of the Summer Triangle.

Végan

(science fiction) Someone from the vicinity of the star Vega.

Végane

(science fiction) Someone from the vicinity of the star Vega.

végétal

(botany) An organism of the kingdom Plantae. Now specifically, a living organism of the Embryophyta (land plants) or of the Chlorophyta (green algae), a eukaryote that includes double-membraned chloroplasts in its cells containing chlorophyll a and b, or any organism closely related to such an organism.

végétalien

Based on plants; especially, of a diet, consisting mostly or wholly of foods derived from plants; vegan.

végétalienne

A person committed to avoiding products and practices that inherently involve animal use, including all foods containing animal products, and to abstaining from direct and intentional harm to animals as far as possible; an adherent to veganism.

végétarien

A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products. [from 1839]

végétarienne

A person who does not eat animal flesh, or, in some cases, use any animal products. [from 1839]

végétation

(uncountable) Plants, taken collectively.

véhément

Showing strong feelings; passionate; forceful or intense.

véhiculaire

Of or pertaining to a vehicle or vehicles, usually specifically cars and trucks; involving a vehicle.

véhicule

A conveyance: a spacious device for carrying or transporting substances, objects, people or animals.

véhiculer

To communicate; to make known; to portray.

veille

The day or night before, usually used for holidays, such as Christmas Eve.

veillée

(archaic, or, poetic) Evening.

veillée du soir

(archaic, or, poetic) Evening.

veillée funèbre

A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.

veiller

To not sleep, to stay awake. (This entry is a translation hub.)

veiller en travaillant

(rare) To work diligently by artificial light; to study at night.

veinard

(of people) Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.

veine

Desirable or beneficial fortune.

veine porte

(anatomy) A short vein that carries blood into the liver.

vélar

Any of several short-lived herbs or shrubs of the Erysimum genus with bright yellow to red flowers.

velcro

A fastener consisting of two strips of fabric, one covered with minute fiber hooks and the other with tiny fiber loops, which stick strongly together but can be pulled apart.

velcroter

To fasten with Velcro.

vélin

Stiff paper imitating that material.

velle

A young cow or bull of any bovid, such as domestic cattle or buffalo.

vélo

Clipping of bicycle.

vélo de course

A vehicle or other device used for, or designed specifically for, racing.

vélocipède

(historical) An early two-wheeled conveyance upon which one rode astride a wooden frame propelled by means of pushing the feet against the ground.

vélocité

(physics) A vector quantity that denotes the rate of change of position with respect to time, combining speed with a directional component.

vélomoteur

A lightweight, two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a small motor and pedals, designed to go no faster than some specified speed limit.

véloter

To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle.

velours

The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc.

velours côtelé

A heavy fabric, usually made of cotton, with vertical ribs.

velu

Covered with fur, or with something resembling fur.

vélux

(architecture) A window, dome, or opening in the roof or ceiling, to admit natural light.

venaison

The meat of a deer, typically one that had lived in its own natural habitat.

vendetta

Punishment inflicted in the spirit of moral outrage or personal vengeance.

vendeur

A servant or valet.

vendeur ambulant

Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.

vendeuse

A servant or valet.

vendre

(transitive) To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle.

vendre au détail

To sell at retail, or in small quantities directly to customers.

vendredi

The sixth day of the week in many religious traditions, and the fifth day of the week in systems using the ISO 8601 norm; the Muslim Sabbath; it follows Thursday and precedes Saturday.

vendu

(informal, idiomatic) A person who sells out, who compromises their principles for financial gain or some other advantage.

vené

(of meat, especially venison) Strong-scented; slightly tainted/spoiled; beginning to decompose.

venelle

A narrow street or passageway, especially one through the middle of a block giving access to the rear of lots of buildings.

vénéneux

Containing sufficient poison to be dangerous to touch or ingest.

vénération

The devotion accorded to a deity or to a sacred object.

vénère

(slang) Irritated, annoyed, angry, bitter, bitchy.

vénérer

To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship.

vènerie

The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.