définition — French to English

How French définition is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: définition (101 868), définitions (29 944). By style: everyday 25 · literary 2 · parliamentary 6 101 · legal and administrative 23 160 · UN documents 102 524.

definition

Used about 111 712 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 5 021 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 230 · UN documents ≈ 85 437). Forms: defined, definition, definitions. Meaning: definition in the Elamur Dictionary.

• Quelle est la définition ?

  What is the definition?

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · #11541644 #11541649

• La loi de tous, c'est la liberté, qui finit où commence la liberté d'autrui, selon l'admirable définition de Robespierre.

  The law of all is liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to Robespierre’s admirable definition.

  Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21617

• C'est toute fois une définition très étroite.

  But that is a very narrow definition.

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1909417

• I. OBJECTIFS ET DÉFINITIONS

  I. OBJECTIVE AND DEFINITIONS

  DGT-TM v2021 · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2844161

• DÉFINITION DE L ' ENFANT

  Definition of the Child

  United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 13522873

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Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

• C'est la version haute définition.

  This is the HD version.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · #1418836 #1436328

• De toutes les définitions de l'homme, la plus mauvaise me paraît celle qui en fait un animal raisonnable.

  Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

  Tatoeba · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · #879674 #833222

• Nous devons essayer de parvenir à un accord commun sur la définition d'un projet de moindre importance.

  We must try to have a common opinion on what is 'non-significant' .

  Europarl v8 · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1864830

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