"charrette" meaning in French

See charrette in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ʃa.ʁɛt/ Audio: Fr-charrette.ogg , LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-Penegal-charrette.wav [France, Vosges], LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-charrette.wav [France] (note: Somain) Forms: charrettes [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French charrete, from Old French charrete; from char + -ete (diminutive). Sense “period of intense work” probably from architecture students loading their work into a cart (pulled by the youngest member) on the day of an exposition. Etymology templates: {{inh|fr|frm|charrete}} Middle French charrete, {{inh|fr|fro|charrete}} Old French charrete Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} charrette f (plural charrettes)
  1. charette (small two-wheeled cart) Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-charrette-fr-noun-XQwPwpWL Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of French entries with incorrect language header: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 82 18 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 89 11
  2. (figurative) period of intense work (to meet a deadline) Tags: feminine, figuratively
    Sense id: en-charrette-fr-noun-UAsLMKl4 Categories (other): French terms with collocations
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: charrette à bras, charrette anglaise, charrette des condamnés

Inflected forms

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "charrette à bras"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "charrette anglaise"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "charrette des condamnés"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "xarré"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "charette"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "charrete"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "șaretă"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "charrete"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French charrete",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "charrete"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French charrete",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French charrete, from Old French charrete; from char + -ete (diminutive). Sense “period of intense work” probably from architecture students loading their work into a cart (pulled by the youngest member) on the day of an exposition.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "charrettes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "charrette f (plural charrettes)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "79 21",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "82 18",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 3 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "89 11",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "charette (small two-wheeled cart)"
      ],
      "id": "en-charrette-fr-noun-XQwPwpWL",
      "links": [
        [
          "charette",
          "charette#English"
        ],
        [
          "cart",
          "cart#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "French terms with collocations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "english": "to drown in work",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "être charrette",
          "translation": "to drown in work",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              22
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2016, Gabriel Dumoulin, Six mois d'abonnement, Atrabile, →ISBN:",
          "text": "J'étais très charrette ces derniers temps. Beaucoup de travail…des gros dossiers pff…et…",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "period of intense work (to meet a deadline)"
      ],
      "id": "en-charrette-fr-noun-UAsLMKl4",
      "links": [
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "deadline",
          "deadline"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) period of intense work (to meet a deadline)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃa.ʁɛt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-charrette.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cd/Fr-charrette.ogg/Fr-charrette.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Fr-charrette.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Vosges"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Penegal-charrette.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f0/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Penegal-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Penegal-charrette.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f0/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Penegal-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Penegal-charrette.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Vosges"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-charrette.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-charrette.wav.mp3",
      "note": "Somain",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-charrette.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "charrette"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "French 2-syllable words",
    "French countable nouns",
    "French entries with incorrect language header",
    "French feminine nouns",
    "French lemmas",
    "French nouns",
    "French terms derived from Middle French",
    "French terms derived from Old French",
    "French terms inherited from Middle French",
    "French terms inherited from Old French",
    "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 3 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "charrette à bras"
    },
    {
      "word": "charrette anglaise"
    },
    {
      "word": "charrette des condamnés"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "Asturian",
      "lang_code": "ast",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "xarré"
    },
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "charette"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "charrete"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "raw_tags": [
        "borrowed"
      ],
      "word": "șaretă"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "frm",
        "3": "charrete"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle French charrete",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "charrete"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French charrete",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle French charrete, from Old French charrete; from char + -ete (diminutive). Sense “period of intense work” probably from architecture students loading their work into a cart (pulled by the youngest member) on the day of an exposition.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "charrettes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "charrette f (plural charrettes)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "charette (small two-wheeled cart)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "charette",
          "charette#English"
        ],
        [
          "cart",
          "cart#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "French terms with collocations",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of French quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              5,
              14
            ]
          ],
          "english": "to drown in work",
          "tags": [
            "collocation"
          ],
          "text": "être charrette",
          "translation": "to drown in work",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              13,
              22
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2016, Gabriel Dumoulin, Six mois d'abonnement, Atrabile, →ISBN:",
          "text": "J'étais très charrette ces derniers temps. Beaucoup de travail…des gros dossiers pff…et…",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "period of intense work (to meet a deadline)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "deadline",
          "deadline"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figurative) period of intense work (to meet a deadline)"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "figuratively"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ʃa.ʁɛt/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-charrette.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/c/cd/Fr-charrette.ogg/Fr-charrette.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Fr-charrette.ogg"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e8/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-charrette.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Vosges"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Penegal-charrette.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f0/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Penegal-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Penegal-charrette.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f0/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Penegal-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-Penegal-charrette.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France",
        "Vosges"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-charrette.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-charrette.wav.mp3",
      "note": "Somain",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/7c/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-charrette.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-J%C3%A9r%C3%A9my-G%C3%BCnther-Heinz_J%C3%A4hnick-charrette.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "France"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "charrette"
}

Download raw JSONL data for charrette meaning in French (4.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable French dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-06-15 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-06-01 using wiktextract (03da280 and 7f4db16). 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.