"fauteuil" meaning in English

See fauteuil in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /fəʊˈtɜː.i/ [UK], /ˈfoʊ.tɪl/ [US] Forms: fauteuils [plural]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). See also English faldistory. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*pel- (fold)}}, {{ubor|en|fr|fauteuil}} Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, {{der|en|gem|-}} Germanic, {{cog|ang|fealdestōl|t=folding-chair}} Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”), {{m+|en|faldistory}} English faldistory Head templates: {{en-noun}} fauteuil (plural fauteuils)
  1. An armchair. Categories (topical): Chairs
    Sense id: en-fauteuil-en-noun-oJFPkXWn Disambiguation of Chairs: 77 16 6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 14 15
  2. The chair of a presiding officer.
    Sense id: en-fauteuil-en-noun-RhikBc2L
  3. (by extension) Membership in the Académie française. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-fauteuil-en-noun-VgBOaCia

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*pel- (fold)"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "fauteuil"
      },
      "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil",
      "name": "ubor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Germanic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "fealdestōl",
        "t": "folding-chair"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "faldistory"
      },
      "expansion": "English faldistory",
      "name": "m+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). See also English faldistory.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fauteuils",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fauteuil (plural fauteuils)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "70 14 15",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "77 16 6",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Chairs",
          "orig": "en:Chairs",
          "parents": [
            "Furniture",
            "Sitting",
            "Home",
            "Body",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 96:",
          "text": "Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An armchair."
      ],
      "id": "en-fauteuil-en-noun-oJFPkXWn",
      "links": [
        [
          "armchair",
          "armchair"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The chair of a presiding officer."
      ],
      "id": "en-fauteuil-en-noun-RhikBc2L",
      "links": [
        [
          "chair",
          "chair"
        ],
        [
          "presiding",
          "preside"
        ],
        [
          "officer",
          "officer"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Membership in the Académie française."
      ],
      "id": "en-fauteuil-en-noun-VgBOaCia",
      "links": [
        [
          "Membership",
          "membership"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Membership in the Académie française."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fəʊˈtɜː.i/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ˈfəʊ.tɜː.ɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfoʊ.tɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ˈfoʊ.tɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/foʊˈteɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fauteuil"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms borrowed from French",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms derived from Germanic languages",
    "English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pel- (fold)",
    "English unadapted borrowings from French",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "en:Chairs",
    "fr:Chairs"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*pel- (fold)"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "fauteuil"
      },
      "expansion": "Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil",
      "name": "ubor"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "gem",
        "3": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "Germanic",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "fealdestōl",
        "t": "folding-chair"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”)",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "faldistory"
      },
      "expansion": "English faldistory",
      "name": "m+"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Unadapted borrowing from French fauteuil, from Germanic. Cognate with Old English fealdestōl (“folding-chair”). See also English faldistory.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "fauteuils",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "fauteuil (plural fauteuils)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 96:",
          "text": "Gaston of Orleans was seated in a fauteuil, wrapped in a loose dressing-gown, everything about him betokening an indolent love of ease.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An armchair."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "armchair",
          "armchair"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "The chair of a presiding officer."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chair",
          "chair"
        ],
        [
          "presiding",
          "preside"
        ],
        [
          "officer",
          "officer"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Membership in the Académie française."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Membership",
          "membership"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(by extension) Membership in the Académie française."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/fəʊˈtɜː.i/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ˈfəʊ.tɜː.ɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfoʊ.tɪl/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/ˈfoʊ.tɔɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "other": "/foʊˈteɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "fauteuil"
}

Download raw JSONL data for fauteuil meaning in English (2.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). 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.