french

1. 1.

   cut (e.g, beans) lengthwise in preparation for cooking

   “French the potatoes”

   Broadercut

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to France or the people of France

   “French cooking”

   “a Gallic shrug”

   SynonymsGallic

Other forms of french

plural

frenches·

past tense

frenched·

present participle

frenching·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about french

What does french mean?

french means "the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in french?

french has 1 syllable: french. In IPA it is /ˈfɹɛntʃ/.

What is another word for french?

Close synonyms include French people, Daniel Chester French, Gallic. 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 french a common word?

french is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.