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seine is a noun and verb meaning "a French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel". It is pronounced /ˈseɪn/ — sayn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a French river that flows through the heart of Paris and then northward into the English Channel
a large fishnet that hangs vertically, with floats at the top and weights at the bottom
fish with a seine; catch fish with a seine
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for seine come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.