"défense" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [French]

IPA: /de.fɑ̃s/ Audio: Fr-défense.ogg Forms: défenses [plural]
Etymology: Inherited from Old French, borrowed from Late Latin dēfēnsa, from Latin dēfendō. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Inherited}} Inherited, {{inh|fr|fro|-|||g=|g2=|g3=|id=|lit=|nocat=|pos=|sc=|sort=|tr=|ts=}} Old French, {{inh+|fr|fro|-}} Inherited from Old French, {{bor|fr|LL.|dēfēnsa}} Late Latin dēfēnsa, {{der|fr|la|dēfendō}} Latin dēfendō Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} défense f (plural défenses)
  1. defence (action of defending or protecting from attack, danger or injury, or any means for that purpose) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-défense-fr-noun-DDLaB0mI Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 18 19 23 21 10 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 12 29 27 7 5
  2. (law) defence Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-défense-fr-noun-Fqe40Skx Categories (other): Law, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 18 19 23 21 10 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 12 29 27 7 5 Topics: law
  3. (sports) defence Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-défense-fr-noun-Fqe40Skx1 Categories (other): Sports, French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 18 12 37 18 7 8 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 18 19 23 21 10 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 12 29 27 7 5 Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  4. prohibition (often on signs informing onlookers that an activity is forbidden) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-défense-fr-noun-rzczSUTO Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 18 19 23 21 10 7 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 21 12 29 27 7 5
  5. (nautical) fender Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-défense-fr-noun-Jq5h3mlE Categories (other): Nautical, Pages with 2 entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 18 19 23 21 10 7 Topics: nautical, transport
  6. tusk (of animal) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-défense-fr-noun-MQs-E29s
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: La Défense, la meilleure défense, c’est l’attaque, légitime défense, prendre la défense Related terms: défendre, défenseur

Noun [Swedish]

Etymology: From French défense. Etymology templates: {{der|sv|fr|défense}} French défense Head templates: {{head|sv|nouns||g=c|g2=|head=|sort=}} défense c, {{sv-noun|c}} défense c
  1. (medicine) guarding Tags: common-gender
    Sense id: en-défense-sv-noun-IxEpOMvI Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Swedish entries with incorrect language header, Medicine Topics: medicine, sciences

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (c3cc510 and 1d3fdbf). 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.