"maton" meaning in Français

See maton in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: \ma.tɔ̃\ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-VictorDtmtc-maton.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-maton.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-maton.wav Forms: matons [plural]
  1. Lait caillé. Tags: dated
    Sense id: fr-maton-fr-noun-WD188fGp Categories (other): Exemples en français, Termes vieillis en français
  2. Petite masse agglomérée de certaines matières, qui se forme par accident lors de la fabrication.
    Sense id: fr-maton-fr-noun-8I98I2ds Categories (other): Exemples en français, Lexique en français de l’industrie
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated

Noun

IPA: \ma.tɔ̃\ Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-VictorDtmtc-maton.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-LoquaxFR-maton.wav , LL-Q150 (fra)-Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick-maton.wav Forms: matons [plural], matonne [feminine]
  1. Gardien de prison. Tags: pejorative, slang
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: argousin, ergastulaire, gaffe, garde-chiourme, geôlier, gardien de prison Translations: вертухай (Russe), bachař (Tchèque)

Inflected forms

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      "word": "Manot"
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      "word": "manto"
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      "word": "Monta"
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    {
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    },
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          "text": "Un maton de pâte à papier."
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    },
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      "word": "argousin"
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      "word": "garde-chiourme"
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      "word": "geôlier"
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      "word": "gardien de prison"
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      "lang_code": "ru",
      "word": "вертухай"
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      "lang": "Tchèque",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "word": "bachař"
    }
  ],
  "word": "maton"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Français dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-01 from the frwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (db8a5a5 and fb63907). 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.