bon mot

1. 1.

   a clever remark

   Synonymsmot

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   France

Questions about bon mot

What does bon mot mean?

bon mot means "a clever remark".

What is another word for bon mot?

Close synonyms include mot. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bon mot a common word?

bon mot is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.