French–English dictionary

dominiquaise

Of, from, or pertaining to Dominica, or its people.

Dominique

A en given name, best known for the Spanish saint who founded the Dominican order.

dominos

Any of several games played by arranging domino tiles on a flat surface.

dommage

Physical injury; hurt; damage.

dommages-intérêts

(legal) The money paid or awarded to a claimant (in England), a pursuer (in Scotland) or a plaintiff (in the US) in a civil action as compensation for a loss suffered by the same.

dompter

(transitive) To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate.

dompteur

One who tames or subdues.

don

(countable) Something given liberally; a gift.

don du ciel

An instance of unexpected benefit or good fortune; a windfall.

don Juan

A promiscuous, philandering man.

Donald

A en given name.

Donaldville

A fictional city, located in the fictional US state of Calisota, that serves as the home of Donald Duck, his surrounding cast, and several other anthropomorphic animals.

Donatello

An Italian Renaissance painter.

donateur

(rare) Donor, one who donates.

donation

A voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause.

donc

therefore (especially in syllogisms)

dongle

(computer hardware) A hardware device used by a specific application for purposes of copy protection.

donjon

(obsolete) The main tower of a motte or castle; a keep or donjon.

donnant-donnant

Something which is offered or asked for in exchange for something else.

donne

(card games) The distribution of cards to players; a player's turn for this.

donnée

Something known or assumed as fact, and is made the basis of reasoning or inference which an intellectual system of any sort (such as knowledge or theoretical framework) is constructed.

donnée aberrante

(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.

donnée de départ

A condition that is assumed to be true without further evaluation.

donner

To give; to offer; to commit.

donner des leçons

(transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

donner en mariage

(transitive) To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. [from 14th c.]

donner en retour

(transitive) To exchange two things, with both parties giving one thing and taking another thing.

donner l’assaut

(chiefly, military) To violently assault (a fortified position or stronghold, a building, etc.) with the aim of gaining control of it.

donner la cale

(transitive, nautical) To punish by dragging under the keel of a ship with the intent of causing painful injuries.

donner la note

(intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.

donner la tétée

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.

donner le sein

(transitive, intransitive) To feed (a baby) milk via the breasts; to suckle; to nurse.

donner libre cours

(transitive, intransitive) To express a strong emotion.

donner sur

To try to see, to pay attention to with one’s eyes.

donner un coup de genou

(transitive) To poke or strike with the knee.

donner un coup de pied

(transitive) To use the foot to kick (usually a ball).

donner un coup de pied à

(transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.

donner un cours magistral

(transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

donner un petit coup de coude

(transitive) To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.

donner un surnom

(transitive) To give a surname to.

donner une conférence

(transitive) To preach, to berate, to scold.

donner une forme

(transitive) To give something a shape and definition.

donner une petite tape amicale

(transitive) To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal.

donner une pichenette

(transitive) To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger.

donneur

The person who deals the cards in a card game.

donneur d'ordre

(law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.

dont

Such as, among which; introducing one or more parts of the group or topic just mentioned.

donut

A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, often made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape flattened sphere shape filled with jelly/jam, custard, or cream.

dopage

(sports) The use of drugs to improve athletic performance.

dopamine

(neurotransmitter, pharmaceutical drug) A monoamine C8H11NO2 that is a decarboxylated form of dopa, present in the body as a neurotransmitter and a precursor of other substances including adrenalin.

dope

(uncountable, slang) Any of various recreational substances:

doping

(sports) The use of drugs to improve athletic performance.

Dorade

(constellation) A small constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble a goldfish or swordfish. It lies between the constellations Pictor and Reticulum, and is notable for containing most of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

doré

Golden coloured.

doré jaune

(plural "walleye" or "walleyes") A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.

dorénavant

Starting from this moment and continuing indefinitely.

dorer

(transitive) To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf.

doreur

One who gilds; especially one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.

doreuse

One who gilds; especially one whose occupation is to overlay things with gold.

Dorien

A member of the Dorians.

doris

(nautical) A small flat-bottomed boat with pointed or somewhat pointed ends, used for fishing both offshore and on rivers.

dorloter

(transitive) To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant.

dormance

The state or characteristic of being dormant; quiet, inactive restfulness.

dormant

Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended.

dormeur

Someone who sleeps.

dormeuse

A lazy person who lies in bed after the usual time for getting up; a sluggard.

dormition

(Eastern Orthodoxy, often, capitalized) The death and assumption into heaven of the Virgin Mary.

Dorothée

A en given name.

dorsal

(anatomy, zootomy) With respect to, or concerning the side in which the backbone is located, or the analogous side of an invertebrate.

dorsale

(oceanography) A long narrow elevation on an ocean bottom.

Dorset

A maritime county of England, bounded by Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Devon and the English Channel.

dortoir

A room in a house, apartment, hotel, or other dwelling where a bed is kept for sleeping.

dos

The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

dosa

A type of thin south Indian pancake made from fermented lentils and rice blended with water, typically served with chutney or sambar.

dosage

The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.

dose

A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game, an election, a trial, or a bid.

doser

To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

dossard

(sports) A rectangular piece of material, carrying a bib number, worn as identification by competitors.

dossier

The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.

dot

(legal) The part of or interest in a deceased husband's property provided to his widow, usually in the form of a life estate.

dotation

Something with which a person or thing is endowed.

doter

(transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.

douaire

(legal) Property given by a groom to his bride or her family, at or before their wedding, in order to legitimize the marriage

douairière

A widow holding property or title derived from her late husband.

douane

An official building, in a port, where customs are collected and shipping is cleared for entry and exit

douanes

(in the plural) The duties or taxes imposed on imported or exported goods.

doublage

(film) The replacement of a voice part in a film or animation, particularly with a translation, revoicing.

doublé

(association football) Two goals scored by one player in a game.

double authentification

(computer security) An identity and access management security method in which users provide two different authentication factors to verify themselves: first the user's password and then a (randomly generated and frequently changing) code generated by an app.

double discours

Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.

double jeu

(baseball, softball) A defensive play in which two outs are recorded.

double langage

Any language deliberately constructed to disguise or distort its actual meaning, often by employing euphemism or ambiguity.

double-mur

(squash) A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall.

doublement

(usually, of relative importance, of degree, quantity or measure) In a double manner; with twice the severity or degree.

doubler

To replace the original soundtrack of a film with a synchronized translation

doubler la mise

(gambling, intransitive) To double one's wager, particularly, the name of a specific doubling bet allowed in blackjack.

doublet

(quantum mechanics) A quantum state of a system with a spin of ½, such that there are two allowed values of the spin component, −½ and +½.

doublon

A redundant item for which an identical item already exists.

doublure

A covering for the inside surface of something.

douçâtre

Overly sweet.

douce

Gentle and not easily angered.

douce-amère

Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).

douceâtre

Overly sweet.

doucement

(idiomatic) Relax; do something gently, lightly or carefully; slow down; calm down.

douceur

The quality of being soft.

douche

A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for irrigation.

douche vaginale

A jet or current of water or vapour directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; in particular, such a jet directed at the vagina for irrigation.

doucher

(transitive, of hopes or dreams) To ruin; to destroy.

doudou

(informal, childish) A stuffed animal, pillow, blanket, or toy that a small child is more attached to than any other, and often sleeps with.

doudoune

(colloquial, slang) A breast, especially that of an adult or adolescent female human.

doué

Endowed with special, in particular intellectual, abilities.

doué de sensation

Experiencing sensation, thought, or feeling.

Douglas

Douglas, the capital city of the Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC3875).

douille

Spent cartridge casings (usually made of brass): the part of the cartridge left over after bullets or shells have been fired.

douiller

(informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).

douillet

(of a place or object) Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social and comfortable.

douillette

(of a place or object) Affording comfort and warmth; snug; social and comfortable.

douleur

Continued dull pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain.

douloureuse

(computing) To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage.

douloureusement

In a painful manner; as if in pain.

douloureux

Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.

douma

A Russian legislative assembly such as the historical duma of the Russian Empire or the modern lower house of the Federal Assembly (the Russian national parliament).

Dourga

A powerful Indian female deity.

doute

(uncountable, archaic) The process of doubting or the state of being in doubt; hesitation, uncertainty.

douter

(ambitransitive) To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question.

douteuse

Subject to, or causing doubt.

douteusement

In a doubtful manner, in context of doubt or ambiguity, questionably.

douteux

Subject to, or causing doubt.

douve

Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.

Douvres

A town, civil parish (with a town council) and major port in Kent, England, the closest point to France (OS grid ref TR3141).

doux

Mild; benign.

doux Jésus

(possibly, _, offensive, blasphemous) An exclamation, particularly used to express excitement or exasperation.

doux-amer

Both bitter and sweet.

douze

The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.

douzième

The ordinal form of the number twelve, describing a person or thing in position number 12 of a sequence.

doxologie

An expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.

doyen

The senior member of some group of people.

doyenne

The senior member of some group of people.

Dr.

Doctor, a title used before a doctor's name or surname (Dr Jane Doe, Dr Doe)

drabe

Of the color of some types of drabcloth: dull brownish yellow or dun.

Dracon

An Athenian lawgiver, known for the severity of his laws.

draconien

Very severe, cruel, or harsh.

Dracula

(fiction) The fictional vampire in the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker.

dragage

That which is dredged up.

dragée

(countable, chiefly, North America, Philippines) A piece of confectionery of this kind.

Dragon

(constellation) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a dragon. It features a line of stars (including Thuban) that winds between Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

dragonne

(by extension) A cord worn around the neck, shoulder, or wrist which is attached to a small object to be carried such as an identity card or security pass, key, knife, or whistle.

dragonner

Chiefly followed by into: to force (someone) into doing something through harassment and intimidation; to coerce.

dragonnet

A small dragon.

dragonnette

A small dragon.