French–English dictionary

gardienne de zoo

A person employed at a zoo to attend to the animals.

gardon

A common roach (Rutilus rutilus)

gardon rouge

common rudd (Scardinius erythrophthalmus)

gare

(British) A place where trains stop for passengers to embark and disembark.

garenne

An underground system of interconnected tunnels occupied by rabbits.

garer

(transitive) To keep within a structure or container.

gargantua

One who eats voraciously, obsessively, or to excess; a gormandizer.

gargantuer

(intransitive) To eat gluttonously or to satiety.

gargariser

(intransitive) To clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs.

gargarisme

A liquid used for gargling.

gargote

(slang) A seedy bar, nightclub, etc.

gargouillement

(by extension) The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.

gargouiller

(intransitive) To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.

garnement

(pejorative) A child who is regarded as mischievous, unruly, spoiled, or selfish.

garnir

(transitive) To provide a place with furniture, or other equipment.

garniture

The contents of a pie, etc.

garniture d'apéritif

A small, light, and usually savory first course in a meal.

garou

Any one of least 50 species of shrub in the genus Daphne of the family Thymelaeaceae, some of which are grown as ornamentals.

garrot

(medicine) A tightly-compressed bandage used to stop bleeding by stopping the flow of blood through a large artery in a limb.

garrot albéole

A duck in the goldeneye genus, Bucephala albeola. [from 1850s]

garrotter

(transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.

gars

(informal, sometimes mildly derogatory) A male human of any age, as opposed to a "girl" (female human of any age).

gasconnade

Boastful talk.

gasconner

(obsolete, derogatory) To talk boastfully.

gaspacho

A cold soup of Spanish origin, made with olive oil, vinegar, bread and raw vegetables such as tomatoes, garlic, onion, cucumber and sweet peppers.

gaspillage

The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.

gaspiller

To waste, lavish, splurge; to spend lavishly or profusely; to dissipate.

gaspilleur

Someone who spends money improvidently or wastefully.

gaspilleuse

Someone or something that wastes; someone who squanders or spends extravagantly.

gastrique

Of or relating to the stomach.

gastronome

A person who appreciates good food.

gastronomie

The study of the relationship between food and culture.

gastronomique

Of or pertaining to gastronomy.

gate

Combined with a relevant place, person, activity, etc. to form the names of scandals.

gâteau

(figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.

gâteau au fromage

(countable, and, uncountable, obsolete) A pie made of cream, eggs and milk (somewhat resembling the modern American chess cake).

gâter

(informal, transitive) To ruin, mess up.

gâteux

(informal) Mentally senile.

gateway

(computing, networking, telecommunications) In wireless internet, an access point with additional software capabilities such as providing NAT and DHCP, which may also provide VPN support, roaming, firewalls, various levels of security, etc.

gauche

Lacking dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments.

gauche d'auteur

A software license that follows this philosophy.

gaucher

(occult, of magic) Performed with the intention of doing harm or in transgression against convention or taboo; following the left-hand path

gauchère

(informal) One who is left-handed, especially in sports.

gauchir

To cause (something) to bend, or to become distorted.

gaucho

A cowboy of the South American pampas.

gaude

A herb (Reseda luteola) related to mignonette, growing in Europe, and to some extent in America, used to make a yellow dye.

gaufre

A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).

gaufre à poche

A small burrowing rodent native to North and Central America, especially in the family Geomyidae (pocket gophers).

gaufrette

A layered wafer biscuit usually filled with chocolate cream.

Gaule

(chiefly, historic) A historical region of Western Europe referring to areas occupied by Celts during Roman times, roughly corresponding to modern France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy (Lombardy), the Netherlands, and Germany west of the Rhine.

gauler

(transitive, slang) To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state.

Gaulois

A native or inhabitant of the historical region of Gaul, or poetically the modern nation of France.

Gauloise

A native or inhabitant of the historical region of Gaul, or poetically the modern nation of France.

gaussien

(mathematics) Of or pertaining to Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Gautier

A en given name.

Gauvain

A en given name.

gaver

(transitive) To fill with food to satiety; to stuff.

gavial

A crocodilian of species Gavialis gangeticus, of the family Gavialidae.

gavial du Gange

A crocodilian of species Gavialis gangeticus, of the family Gavialidae.

gay

(colloquial) Not heterosexual, not allosexual, or not cisgender: homosexual, bisexual, asexual, transgender, etc.

gaydar

(LGBTQ slang) The supposed ability to detect whether or not a person is gay by observing that person's appearance, mannerisms, etc. [from early 1980s]

gaz d'échappement

Exhaust gas.

Gaza

A city in the Gaza Strip, Palestine in the Levant; in full, Gaza City.

gazébo

A belvedere, either a type of summer-house or a roofed, detached porch-like structure, usually in a yard, park or lawn.

gazéificateur

An apparatus used to perform gasification.

gazéifié

Containing carbon dioxide gas under pressure, especially pertaining to beverages, as natural mineral water or man-made drinks.

gazéifier

To convert into gas, or an aeriform fluid, as by the application of heat, or by chemical processes.

gazelle

An antelope of either of the genera Gazella (mostly native to Africa), Procapra (native to Asia), Eudorcas, or Nanger, capable of running at high speeds for long periods.

gazer

(transitive) To attack or kill with poison gas.

gazetier

(geography) A dictionary or index of geographical locations.

gazette

(law, often, _, capitalized, _, and, _) An official periodical publication published by a government containing legal and state notices, and in some cases, legislations, subsidiary legislations and bills.

gazeux

Containing carbon dioxide gas under pressure, especially pertaining to beverages, as natural mineral water or man-made drinks.

gazier

(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street. [From 1847]

gazole

A fuel derived from petroleum (or other oils) but heavier than gasoline/petrol. Used to power diesel engines which burn this fuel using the heat produced when air is compressed.

gazoline

(uncountable, North America) A flammable liquid consisting of a mixture of refined petroleum hydrocarbons, mainly used as a motor fuel; petrol.

gazon

(countable, uncountable) Any plant of the family Poaceae, characterized by leaves that arise from nodes in the stem and leaf bases that wrap around the stem, especially those grown as ground cover rather than for grain.

gazonner

To cover with sod.

gazou

(musical instrument) A simple musical instrument (a membranophone) consisting of a pipe with a hole in it, producing a buzzing sound when the player hums into it.

gazouiller

(intransitive, of teeth, machinery, etc.) To make a noise by rapid collisions.

gazouillis

The sound of a bird; any short high-pitched sound or whistle.

GC

(informal) Initialism of gender critical.

gé

The name of the Latin-script letter G/g.

geai

Any of various other birds of similar appearance and behaviour.

geai des chênes

A widespread species of jay, usually crested and with pinkish-brown plumage and a harsh screech (Garrulus glandarius).

géant

(medicine) Affecting a large portion of the body, or severe.

gecko

Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae of small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.

Géhenne

In rabbinical literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, the place where the souls of the wicked go after death, where they suffer eternal damnation or annihilation.

geignard

Constantly complaining, especially in a childish way due to insignificant matters; fretful, whiny.

geignement

A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.

geindre

To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine.

geisha

A Japanese female entertainer skilled in various arts such as tea ceremony, dancing, singing and calligraphy.

gel

(computer) The state when either a single computer program, or the whole system ceases to respond to inputs.

gélatineux

Jelly-like.

gelato

An Italian variant of ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavourings. The ingredients are supercooled while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form.

gelé

Cold, chilly; icy.

geler

(intransitive, copulative) Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature.

gélotologie

(psychology, physiology) The study of humour and laughter, and its effects on the body. [from 1964]

gélule

(pharmacy) A small container containing a dose of medicine.

gelure

An injury suffered as a result of freezing of some part of the body, typically fingers, toes or the nose.

Gémeaux

Someone who has the Gemini star sign.

gémir

To make a groan.

gémissant

Tending to creak.

gémissement

A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.

gemme

A gem, usually made of minerals.

gênant

Causing embarrassment; leading to a feeling of uncomfortable shame or self-consciousness.

gencive

(often, in the plural) The flesh around the teeth.

gendarme

Pyrrhocoris apterus, a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family Pyrrhocoridae.

gendarmerie

A police force.

genderfluid

(LGBTQ) Not having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.

genderqueer

(LGBTQ, sometimes, offensive) Not exclusively male or female; having or pertaining to a gender identity which is not represented by the gender binary.

gène

A producer of something, or an agent in the production of something.

généalogique

Of or relating to genealogy.

gêner

(transitive) To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds.

général

General; covering or encompassing everything.

général d'armée

(military ranks) The holder of a senior military title, originally designating the commander of an army and now a specific rank falling under field marshal (in the British army) and below general of the army or general of the air force in the US army and air forces. [from 16th c.]

généralement

(idiomatic) In general; most often.

généralisé

(idiomatic) Pertaining to all categories or things.

généraliser

To speak in generalities, or in vague terms.

généralissime

(military) A supreme commander of the armed forces of a country, especially one who is also a political leader.

généraliste

A person with a broad general knowledge, especially one with more than superficial knowledge in several areas and the ability to combine ideas from diverse fields.

générateur

Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

générateur électrique

Especially, a machine that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.

génératif

Having the power of generating, propagating, originating, or producing.

génération

(countable, uncommon, possibly, dated) A generation.

généreux

(, of a person) Inclined to be generous.

générique

(television/film, usually, in the plural) Written titles and other information about the TV program or movie shown at the beginning and/or end of the TV program or movie.

générosité

(uncountable) The trait of being willing to donate money, resources, or time.

Genèse

(religion, book of the bible) The first book in the Hebrew Bible.

genêt à balais

Any of several yellow-flowered shrubs of the family Fabaceae, with long, stiff, thin branches and small or few leaves used for the domestic utensil.

généticien

A scientist who studies genes.

généticienne

A scientist who studies genes.

génétiquement

In a manner relating to genes or genetics.

Genève

A canton of Switzerland.

Geneviève

A en given name.

genévrier

Any shrub or tree of the genus Juniperus of the cypress family, which is characterized by pointed, needle-like leaves and aromatic berry-like cones.

génial

(colloquial, North America, Australia) Excellent, exciting, remarkable.

génialité

The quality of being awesome.

génie

(uncountable) The application of mathematics and the physical sciences to the needs of humanity and the development of technology.

genièvre

A Dutch and Flemish alcoholic spirit, flavoured with juniper, rather like gin.

génisse

A young female cow, (particularly) one over one year old but which has not calved.

génitif

Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.

génitive

Of a grammatical case: in an inflected language (such as Greek or Latin), expressing that a thing denoted by a word is related to a thing denoted by another word as its origin or possessor; and in an uninflected language (such as English), expressing origin or possession; possessive.

génocide

The systematic and deliberate destruction of a group of people, typically by killing substantial numbers of them, on the basis of their ethnicity, religion, or nationality.

génois

Of or pertaining to Genoa (Genova)

génome

(genetics) The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism. [from 1930]

génotype

(genetics) The part (DNA sequence) of the genetic makeup of an organism which determines a specific characteristic (phenotype) of that organism.

genoux

The upper legs of a seated person.

genre

(idiomatic) Indicates that the speaker deems something highly unlikely.

genre-fluide

(LGBTQ) Not having a fixed gender; having a gender which changes from time to time.

genrer

(sociology) To assign a gender to (a person); to perceive as having a gender; to address using terms (pronouns, nouns, adjectives...) that express a certain gender.