"protégée" meaning in English

See protégée in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈpɹɒtəʒeɪ/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɹoʊtəʒeɪ/ [General-American] Forms: protégées [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from French protégée. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|fr|protégée}} French protégée Head templates: {{en-noun}} protégée (plural protégées)
  1. A female protégé.
    Sense id: en-protégée-en-noun-mQdrL6Wb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "protégée"
      },
      "expansion": "French protégée",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French protégée.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "protégées",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "protégée (plural protégées)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "pro‧té‧gée"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 81:",
          "text": "The Admiral delighted in the boy, Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl; and it was the lady's death which now obliged her protegée, after some months' further trial at her uncle's house, to find another home.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 31, “Rachida Dati: why was she fired?”, in The Week, number 700, page 21:",
          "text": "Though formerly a protégée and friend of [Nicolas] Sarkozy, [Rachida] Dati has fallen from grace in the past year, said John Lichfield in The Independent.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female protégé."
      ],
      "id": "en-protégée-en-noun-mQdrL6Wb",
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "protégé",
          "protégé"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɒtəʒeɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹoʊtəʒeɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "protégée"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fr",
        "3": "protégée"
      },
      "expansion": "French protégée",
      "name": "bor"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French protégée.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "protégées",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "protégée (plural protégées)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "pro‧té‧gée"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "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 spelled with É",
        "English terms spelled with ◌́",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 2 entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 81:",
          "text": "The Admiral delighted in the boy, Mrs. Crawford doted on the girl; and it was the lady's death which now obliged her protegée, after some months' further trial at her uncle's house, to find another home.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009 January 31, “Rachida Dati: why was she fired?”, in The Week, number 700, page 21:",
          "text": "Though formerly a protégée and friend of [Nicolas] Sarkozy, [Rachida] Dati has fallen from grace in the past year, said John Lichfield in The Independent.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A female protégé."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "female",
          "female"
        ],
        [
          "protégé",
          "protégé"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɒtəʒeɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹoʊtəʒeɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "protégée"
}

Download raw JSONL data for protégée meaning in English (1.7kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-10-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-09-20 using wiktextract (3fd8a50 and 59b8406). 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.