French–English dictionary

vénérien

Of a disease: sexually transmitted; of or relating to, or adapted to the cure of, a venereal disease.

Venezuela

A country in South America. Official name: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Capital and largest city: Caracas.

vénézuélien

Of, from, or pertaining to Venezuela or the Venezuelan people.

vénézuélienne

Of, from, or pertaining to Venezuela or the Venezuelan people.

vengeance

Any form of personal, retaliatory action against an individual, institution, or group for some alleged or perceived harm or injustice.

vengeresse

One who avenges or vindicates.

vengeur

One who avenges or vindicates.

véniel

Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.

venimeux

Of an animal (specifically a snake) or parts of its body: producing venom which is usually injected into an enemy or prey by biting or stinging; hence, of a bite or sting: injecting venom.

venin

A substance that is harmful or lethal to a living organism when ingested.

venir

(in perfect tenses) Elliptical form of "be here", "go to and return from" or similar, also extending to certain other senses of "go".

venir à l'idée

(impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest itself.

venir de

To be a native of, to come from, to originate from; to have as one's birth place or residence.

Vénitien

A native or inhabitant of the city of Venice or surrounding province, Veneto region, northeastern Italy.

Vénitienne

A native or inhabitant of the city of Venice or surrounding province, Veneto region, northeastern Italy.

vent

(figurative) Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.

ventail

The opening part of a window, usually containing the glass panes; either hinged to the jamb, or sliding up and down as in a sash window. [circa 1680]

vente

An exchange of goods or services for currency or credit.

vente à découvert

(commerce, finance) The practice of selling items or stock which one does not currently possess.

vente à perte

(economics, trading) Selling goods at less than their normal price, or even at a loss, especially in the export market as a means of securing a monopoly.

vente au détail

(business) The sale of goods directly to the consumer, encompassing the storefronts, mail-order, websites, etc., and the corporate mechanisms, branding, advertising, etc. that support them.

vente aux enchères

A public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder.

vente en gros

(business) The sale of products, often in large quantities, to retailers or other merchants.

venteux

Unsheltered and open to the wind.

ventilateur

Any device that blows; often, especially, a furnace component or a supercharger.

ventilation

(medicine) The mechanical system used to assist breathing.

ventiler

(transitive) To let fresh air into (a room or a building), to ventilate.

ventouse

(archaic, medicine) A glass vessel used in cupping.

ventre

The abdomen (especially a fat one).

ventriculaire

Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.

ventriloque

A person, especially an entertainer, who practices ventriloquism.

ventriloquie

The art of projecting one's voice without moving the lips so that it appears to come from another source, such as a dummy.

venue

The act of arriving; an arrival.

vépéenne

(computing) Initialism of virtual private network.

vêpres

(Christianity) A Christian service held in the late afternoon or early evening; evensong

ver

A contemptible or devious being.

ver de terre

A worm that lives in the ground.

ver luisant

(Northern US, Western US, Florida) Any beetle of the family Lampyridae, which exhibit bioluminescence during twilight.

ver solitaire

(countable) Any parasitical worm of the class or infraclass Cestoda, which infests the intestines of animals, including humans, often infecting different host species during their life cycle.

Vera

A en given name.

véracité

Conformity to the truth or to fact.

Veracruz

A city in Veracruz, Mexico.

véranda

(chiefly, _, UK, Ireland) A glass-walled and -roofed room in a house

verbal

Expressly spoken rather than written; oral.

verbalement

In a verbal manner; with words; by speaking.

verbaliser

To impose such a fine or penalty.

verbatim

A word-for-word report of a speech.

Verbe

The creative word of God; Logos.

verbe d'action

A word that expresses action and tells what the subject of a sentence does.

verbeux

High-sounding but with little meaning.

verbiage

Empty verbiage or nonsense. [from early 19th c.]

verbomoteur

(informal) One who talks very quickly or incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person.

verbomotrice

(informal) One who talks very quickly or incessantly; a chatty or loquacious person.

verbosité

(rhetoric) The excess use of words, especially using more than are needed for clarity or precision.

verdeur

The state or quality of being green; green colour. [from 8th c.]

verdict

(countable, obsolete) A sentence or penalty for illegal behaviour.

verdir

(transitive) To make or turn (something) green or greener.

verdoyant

Green in colour.

Verdun

A small city in Meuse department, Grand Est, France, the site of a ten-month long battle in World War I.

verdure

Green foliage or verdure.

véreux

Having grubs in it.

verge

A stick, rod or bundle of twigs made from birch wood, used for punishment.

vergée

A measure of land area, equal to a quarter of an acre.

verger

(transitive) To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood.

verges

A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.

verglas

A smooth, barely visible, and dangerously slippery film of ice, usually over a dark surface, such as rock or pavement.

véridique

(informal) Genuine, true; serious, earnest.

vérifiable

Able to be verified or confirmed.

vérificateur

One who or that which checks or verifies something.

vérification

An inspection or examination.

vérificatrice

One who or that which checks or verifies something.

vérifier

(transitive) To inspect; to examine.

verisimilitude

The property of seeming true, of resembling reality; resemblance to reality.

véritable

Belonging to, or proceeding from the original stock; native

véritablement

Truly; doubtlessly; honestly; in truth.

vérité

A real entity, event, or other fact.

vermeil

Having a brilliant red colour.

vermicelle

Long, slender pasta, similar to spaghetti, only thinner.

vermicelles

Long, slender pasta, similar to spaghetti, only thinner.

vermifuger

To cause an animal to excrete any worms in the digestive tract by the administration of drugs.

vermine

(pejorative) A contemptible person (plural swine or swines).

Vermont

A state of the United States.

vermouth

A dry, or sweet apéritif wine flavored with aromatic herbs, and often used in mixed drinks.

vernaculaire

Everyday speech or dialect, including colloquialisms, as opposed to standard, literary, liturgical, or scientific idiom.

Verne

(countable) A surname from French.

vernir

(intransitive) To apply varnish.

vernis

(uncountable) Any viscous liquid or paste, such as a lubricant, used in preparing a surface.

Vernon

An English habitational surname from Anglo-Norman, originally a Norman baronial name, derived from the town in Normandy.

vérole

A disease characterized by purulent skin eruptions that may leave pockmarks.

Vérone

A city, the capital of the province of Verona, straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy.

Véronique

A en given name.

verre

(usually, uncountable) An amorphous solid, often transparent substance, usually made by melting silica sand with various additives (for most purposes, a mixture of soda, potash and lime is added).

verre [[d']]eau

(countable) A serving of liquid water.

verrer

(transitive) To clean, polish, or wash (something) by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent.

verrerie

Articles made from glass, especially drinking glasses, jugs and other tableware made of glass.

verrière

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

verrou

A sliding pin or bar in a lock or latch mechanism.

verrouillage

The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or cells (in a prison), or to their own homes or areas (e.g., in the case of a city- or nation-wide issue) as a security measure after or amid a disturbance or as a non-pharmaceutical intervention in a pandemic.

verrouiller

(transitive) To fasten with a lock.

verrue

(pathology) A type of deformed growth occurring on the skin caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV).

vers

Near; in the vicinity of.

vers [[le|l']]ouest

Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.

vers de mirliton

(poetry) A comic or humorous verse, usually irregular in measure.

vers l

Towards the east; eastwards.

vers l'arrière

(nautical) On the aft side; in the stern. [First attested in the early 17th century.]

vers le haut

Toward the top of.

vers où

In, at or to the place (that) or a place (that).

Versailles

A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.

versant

An area of ground that tends evenly upward or downward.

versatile

(LGBTQ, _, slang) Willing to take either a penetrative (top) or receptive (bottom) role in anal sex.

verse

(agriculture) The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.

Verseau

Someone with an Aquarius star sign

verser

(transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.

verser goutte à goutte

(transitive) to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

verset

A small section of a holy book (Bible, Quran etc.)

version

(computing, countable) Any of various versions of a software product as it is being developed for release to users.

vert

(figurative, of people) Sickly, unwell.

vert de jalousie

(figurative, of people) Naive or unaware of obvious facts.

verte

(politics, sometimes capitalized) A member of a green party; an environmentalist.

vertébral

(anatomy) Of or relating to a vertebra or the spine.

vertèbre

(skeleton) Any of the bony or cartilaginous segments which make up the backbone, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord.

vertical

(geometry) At or forming a right angle (to something).

verticalement

In a vertical direction or position.

verticille

(botany) A circle of three or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.

vertige

A sensation of whirling and loss of balance, caused by looking down from a great height or by disease affecting the inner ear.

vertigineux

Producing giddiness.

vertueux

Full of virtue; having excellent moral character.

verve

Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.

verveine

Verbena, a genus of herbaceous plants of which several species are extensively cultivated for the great beauty of their flowers; vervain.

vésicule

(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.

Vespasien

a Roman cognomen, notably borne by Titus Flavius Vespasianus, the Roman emperor from AD 69 to 79

vessie

(zoology) A flexible sac that can expand and contract and that holds liquids or gases.

veste

A type of sweater or jumper that fastens up the front with buttons or a zipper, usually machine- or hand-knitted from wool.

vestiaire

(British, Irish, India) A room intended for holding luggage, as at an airport.

vestibule

A small room immediately inside the front door of a house or other building, often having an access to a stairway and leading on to other rooms

vestige

(by extension) A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present.

Vésuve

A volcanic mountain located on the Gulf of Naples in Italy.

vêtement

A single item of clothing.

vêtements

Clothing.

vêtements à repasser

Laundry that has been washed and is ready to be ironed.

vêtements de ville

Ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.

vêtements repassés

Laundry that has recently been ironed.

vétéran

(British, military slang) A veteran soldier or war veteran.

vétérinaire

A medical doctor who treats non-human animals.

vétille

An insignificant amount of money.

vêtir

(archaic, literary, or, obsolete, past tense clad) To clothe, to dress.

véto

(colloquial) A veterinarian or veterinary surgeon.

vêtu

(of a person, preceded by a garment type) Wearing clothing or some other covering (for example, an armour) on the body; clothed, dressed.

vétuste

old-fashioned, out of date

veuf

(of a previously married person) Whose spouse has died or is gone missing; who has become a widow or widower.