"beaucoup" meaning in All languages combined

See beaucoup on Wiktionary

Adverb [English]

IPA: /boʊˈkuː/, /ˈbuːkuː/ Audio: En-us-beaucoup.oga
Rhymes: -uː Etymology: Borrowed from French beaucoup. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|beaucoup}} French beaucoup Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} beaucoup (not comparable)
  1. In abundance. Tags: not-comparable
    Sense id: en-beaucoup-en-adv-is07n5rx Categories (other): English determiners, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English determiners: 61 34 5 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 71 27 2 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 71 27 2 0 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 74 25 1 0 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: boku, boocoo, bookoo, buku

Determiner [English]

IPA: /boʊˈkuː/, /ˈbuːkuː/ Audio: En-us-beaucoup.oga
Rhymes: -uː Etymology: Borrowed from French beaucoup. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|beaucoup}} French beaucoup Head templates: {{head|en|determiner|head=}} beaucoup, {{en-det}} beaucoup
  1. (US, especially Louisiana, informal) Much, many, a lot of. Tags: Louisiana, US, especially, informal
    Sense id: en-beaucoup-en-det-UC~B~Dl9 Categories (other): American English, Louisiana English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: boku, boocoo, bookoo, buku

Noun [English]

IPA: /boʊˈkuː/, /ˈbuːkuː/ Audio: En-us-beaucoup.oga Forms: beaucoups [plural]
Rhymes: -uː Etymology: Borrowed from French beaucoup. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|beaucoup}} French beaucoup Head templates: {{en-noun}} beaucoup (plural beaucoups)
  1. An abundance.
    Sense id: en-beaucoup-en-noun-COwXUHIM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: boku, boocoo, bookoo, buku

Adverb [French]

IPA: /bo.ku/, /bo.ku/ [Louisiana], /bu.ku/ [Louisiana] Audio: Fr-beaucoup.ogg
Rhymes: -u Etymology: Inherited from Old French biau cop, first attested circa 1210. Equivalent to beau (“nice, beautiful”) + coup (“hit, strike”). The latter word also means “helping of soup or beverage”, first attested circa 1375, whose sense may have triggered or reinforced beaucoup to mean “a lot”. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|biau cop|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French biau cop, {{inh+|fr|fro|biau cop}} Inherited from Old French biau cop, {{af|fr|beau|coup|t1=nice, beautiful|t2=hit, strike}} beau (“nice, beautiful”) + coup (“hit, strike”) Head templates: {{fr-adv}} beaucoup
  1. much, very much, a lot [with de ‘of’]
    Sense id: en-beaucoup-fr-adv-AJ6b-n3x Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 48 52
  2. (Louisiana) very Tags: Louisiana
    Sense id: en-beaucoup-fr-adv-TGpIOfg9 Categories (other): Louisiana French, French entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: boucoup [Louisiana] Derived forms: à beaucoup près, c’est beaucoup, de beaucoup, il s’en faut de beaucoup, pour beaucoup Related terms: beau, belle, coup, plus, autant, moins

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "beaucoup"
      },
      "expansion": "French beaucoup",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French beaucoup. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "determiner",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "beaucoup",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "beaucoup",
      "name": "en-det"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "det",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Louisiana English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You know that cost beaucoup bucks!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 3rd section, page 282:",
          "text": "“I bet the skipper’s been drinkin^([sic]) beaucoup highballs an^([sic]) thinks Brooklyn’s Hoboken.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 93:",
          "text": "Donlon says, \"Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987 November 2, Michael Halperin, w:Dorothy Catherine Fontana, “Lonely Among Us”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), production code 108:",
          "text": "Then he'd have to be relieved of command. Which you could do, Doctor, but it's beaucoup trouble if you're wrong.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Much, many, a lot of."
      ],
      "id": "en-beaucoup-en-det-UC~B~Dl9",
      "links": [
        [
          "Much",
          "much"
        ],
        [
          "many",
          "many"
        ],
        [
          "a lot",
          "a lot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, especially Louisiana, informal) Much, many, a lot of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana",
        "US",
        "especially",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/boʊˈkuː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbuːkuː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-beaucoup.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga/En-us-beaucoup.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "boku"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "boocoo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bookoo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "buku"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Vietnam War"
  ],
  "word": "beaucoup"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "beaucoup"
      },
      "expansion": "French beaucoup",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French beaucoup. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beaucoups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "beaucoup (plural beaucoups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970, “Beaucoups of Blues”, in Buzz Rabin (lyrics), Beaucoups of Blues, performed by Ringo Starr:",
          "text": "Alongside the road with holes in my soul and my shoes / And beaucoups of blues",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An abundance."
      ],
      "id": "en-beaucoup-en-noun-COwXUHIM",
      "links": [
        [
          "abundance",
          "abundance"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/boʊˈkuː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbuːkuː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-beaucoup.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga/En-us-beaucoup.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "boku"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "boocoo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bookoo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "buku"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Vietnam War"
  ],
  "word": "beaucoup"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "beaucoup"
      },
      "expansion": "French beaucoup",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French beaucoup. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "beaucoup (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "61 34 5",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English determiners",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 27 2",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "71 27 2 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "74 25 1 0 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "In abundance."
      ],
      "id": "en-beaucoup-en-adv-is07n5rx",
      "links": [
        [
          "abundance",
          "abundance"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/boʊˈkuː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbuːkuː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-beaucoup.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga/En-us-beaucoup.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "boku"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "boocoo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "bookoo"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "buku"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Vietnam War"
  ],
  "word": "beaucoup"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "à beaucoup près"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "c’est beaucoup"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "de beaucoup"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "il s’en faut de beaucoup"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pour beaucoup"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lou",
            "2": "bokou",
            "3": "boukou"
          },
          "expansion": "Louisiana Creole: bokou, boukou",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Louisiana Creole: bokou, boukou"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mfe",
            "2": "boukou"
          },
          "expansion": "Mauritian Creole: boukou",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Mauritian Creole: boukou"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "beaucoup",
            "alts": "1",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: beaucoup, boku, boocoo, bookoo, buku",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: beaucoup, boku, boocoo, bookoo, buku"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pcm",
            "2": "boku",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Nigerian Pidgin: boku",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Nigerian Pidgin: boku"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "biau cop",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old French biau cop",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "biau cop"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Old French biau cop",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "beau",
        "3": "coup",
        "t1": "nice, beautiful",
        "t2": "hit, strike"
      },
      "expansion": "beau (“nice, beautiful”) + coup (“hit, strike”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old French biau cop, first attested circa 1210. Equivalent to beau (“nice, beautiful”) + coup (“hit, strike”). The latter word also means “helping of soup or beverage”, first attested circa 1375, whose sense may have triggered or reinforced beaucoup to mean “a lot”.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "beaucoup",
      "name": "fr-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adv",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "beau"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "belle"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "coup"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "plus"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "autant"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "moins"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Thank you very much!",
          "text": "Merci beaucoup!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I eat a lot.",
          "text": "Je mange beaucoup.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "We know a lot of people.",
          "text": "On connaît beaucoup de gens.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "much, very much, a lot"
      ],
      "id": "en-beaucoup-fr-adv-AJ6b-n3x",
      "info_templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": ":de<of>"
          },
          "expansion": "[with de ‘of’]",
          "extra_data": {
            "words": [
              "de",
              "‘of’"
            ]
          },
          "name": "+obj"
        }
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "much",
          "much"
        ],
        [
          "very much",
          "very much"
        ],
        [
          "a lot",
          "a lot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "much, very much, a lot [with de ‘of’]"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Louisiana French",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "48 52",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "A very old man.",
          "text": "Un beaucoup vieux homme.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "very"
      ],
      "id": "en-beaucoup-fr-adv-TGpIOfg9",
      "links": [
        [
          "very",
          "very"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Louisiana) very"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bo.ku/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-beaucoup.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/Fr-beaucoup.ogg/Fr-beaucoup.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Fr-beaucoup.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bo.ku/",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bu.ku/",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-u"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ],
      "word": "boucoup"
    }
  ],
  "word": "beaucoup"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adverbs",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English determiners",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English uncomparable adverbs",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/uː",
    "Rhymes:English/uː/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "beaucoup"
      },
      "expansion": "French beaucoup",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French beaucoup. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "determiner",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "beaucoup",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "beaucoup",
      "name": "en-det"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "det",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "Louisiana English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You know that cost beaucoup bucks!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1925, John Dos Passos, Manhattan Transfer, New York, N.Y., London: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, 3rd section, page 282:",
          "text": "“I bet the skipper’s been drinkin^([sic]) beaucoup highballs an^([sic]) thinks Brooklyn’s Hoboken.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1979, Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers, New York: Bantam Books, published 1980, →ISBN, page 93:",
          "text": "Donlon says, \"Well, we're rich and we got beaucoup beer and beaucoup chow. Now all we need is the Bob Hope show.\"",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1987 November 2, Michael Halperin, w:Dorothy Catherine Fontana, “Lonely Among Us”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 7, spoken by Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton), production code 108:",
          "text": "Then he'd have to be relieved of command. Which you could do, Doctor, but it's beaucoup trouble if you're wrong.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Much, many, a lot of."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Much",
          "much"
        ],
        [
          "many",
          "many"
        ],
        [
          "a lot",
          "a lot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, especially Louisiana, informal) Much, many, a lot of."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana",
        "US",
        "especially",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/boʊˈkuː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbuːkuː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-beaucoup.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga/En-us-beaucoup.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "boku"
    },
    {
      "word": "boocoo"
    },
    {
      "word": "bookoo"
    },
    {
      "word": "buku"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Vietnam War"
  ],
  "word": "beaucoup"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adverbs",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English determiners",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English uncomparable adverbs",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/uː",
    "Rhymes:English/uː/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "beaucoup"
      },
      "expansion": "French beaucoup",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French beaucoup. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beaucoups",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "beaucoup (plural beaucoups)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1970, “Beaucoups of Blues”, in Buzz Rabin (lyrics), Beaucoups of Blues, performed by Ringo Starr:",
          "text": "Alongside the road with holes in my soul and my shoes / And beaucoups of blues",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An abundance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "abundance",
          "abundance"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/boʊˈkuː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbuːkuː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-beaucoup.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga/En-us-beaucoup.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "boku"
    },
    {
      "word": "boocoo"
    },
    {
      "word": "bookoo"
    },
    {
      "word": "buku"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Vietnam War"
  ],
  "word": "beaucoup"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adverbs",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English determiners",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English uncomparable adverbs",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:English/uː",
    "Rhymes:English/uː/2 syllables"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "beaucoup"
      },
      "expansion": "French beaucoup",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French beaucoup. Popularized by American GIs during the Vietnam War.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "beaucoup (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "In abundance."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "abundance",
          "abundance"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/boʊˈkuː/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbuːkuː/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-beaucoup.oga",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga/En-us-beaucoup.oga.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/En-us-beaucoup.oga"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uː"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "boku"
    },
    {
      "word": "boocoo"
    },
    {
      "word": "bookoo"
    },
    {
      "word": "buku"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Vietnam War"
  ],
  "word": "beaucoup"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "French 2-syllable words",
    "French adverbs",
    "French compound terms",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French lemmas",
    "French terms derived from Old French",
    "French terms inherited from Old French",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:French/u",
    "Rhymes:French/u/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "à beaucoup près"
    },
    {
      "word": "c’est beaucoup"
    },
    {
      "word": "de beaucoup"
    },
    {
      "word": "il s’en faut de beaucoup"
    },
    {
      "word": "pour beaucoup"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "lou",
            "2": "bokou",
            "3": "boukou"
          },
          "expansion": "Louisiana Creole: bokou, boukou",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Louisiana Creole: bokou, boukou"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "mfe",
            "2": "boukou"
          },
          "expansion": "Mauritian Creole: boukou",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Mauritian Creole: boukou"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "beaucoup",
            "alts": "1",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: beaucoup, boku, boocoo, bookoo, buku",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: beaucoup, boku, boocoo, bookoo, buku"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "pcm",
            "2": "boku",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Nigerian Pidgin: boku",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Nigerian Pidgin: boku"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "Inherited"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited",
      "name": "glossary"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "biau cop",
        "4": "",
        "5": "",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "id": "",
        "lit": "",
        "nocat": "",
        "pos": "",
        "sc": "",
        "sort": "",
        "tr": "",
        "ts": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Old French biau cop",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "biau cop"
      },
      "expansion": "Inherited from Old French biau cop",
      "name": "inh+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "beau",
        "3": "coup",
        "t1": "nice, beautiful",
        "t2": "hit, strike"
      },
      "expansion": "beau (“nice, beautiful”) + coup (“hit, strike”)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Inherited from Old French biau cop, first attested circa 1210. Equivalent to beau (“nice, beautiful”) + coup (“hit, strike”). The latter word also means “helping of soup or beverage”, first attested circa 1375, whose sense may have triggered or reinforced beaucoup to mean “a lot”.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "beaucoup",
      "name": "fr-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adv",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "beau"
    },
    {
      "word": "belle"
    },
    {
      "word": "coup"
    },
    {
      "word": "plus"
    },
    {
      "word": "autant"
    },
    {
      "word": "moins"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Thank you very much!",
          "text": "Merci beaucoup!",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I eat a lot.",
          "text": "Je mange beaucoup.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "We know a lot of people.",
          "text": "On connaît beaucoup de gens.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "much, very much, a lot"
      ],
      "info_templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": ":de<of>"
          },
          "expansion": "[with de ‘of’]",
          "extra_data": {
            "words": [
              "de",
              "‘of’"
            ]
          },
          "name": "+obj"
        }
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "much",
          "much"
        ],
        [
          "very much",
          "very much"
        ],
        [
          "a lot",
          "a lot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "much, very much, a lot [with de ‘of’]"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "French terms with usage examples",
        "Louisiana French"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "A very old man.",
          "text": "Un beaucoup vieux homme.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "very"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "very",
          "very"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Louisiana) very"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bo.ku/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-beaucoup.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/81/Fr-beaucoup.ogg/Fr-beaucoup.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Fr-beaucoup.ogg"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bo.ku/",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bu.ku/",
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-u"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "Louisiana"
      ],
      "word": "boucoup"
    }
  ],
  "word": "beaucoup"
}

Download raw JSONL data for beaucoup meaning in All languages combined (9.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (8a39820 and 4401a4c). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.