jean de la fontaine

1. 1.

   French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695)

   SynonymsLa Fontaine

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Questions about jean de la fontaine

What does jean de la fontaine mean?

jean de la fontaine means "French writer who collected Aesop's fables and published them (1621-1695)".

What is another word for jean de la fontaine?

Close synonyms include La Fontaine. 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 jean de la fontaine a common word?

jean de la fontaine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.