Example sentences for: dictionnaire

How can you use “dictionnaire” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To be sure, the Dictionnaire does not consist exclusively of naturalized or Frenchified alien words and wordy phrases of bureaucratic facture.

  • Ernout and Meillet, in their delightful Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine , urbanely review several rather far-fetched possibilities including LMN—well, it is a series—and elephas (elephant), but conclude with a shrug of their shoulders and a suggestion that the word might have come from Etruscan.

  • The French philosopher Pierre Bayle, for example, set out in the 1690s to produce a vast reference work, Dictionnaire historique et critique ( Historical and Critical Dictionary ), whose sole purpose was to point out the mistakes in all other previously published reference works.

  • Dictionnaire de Franglais

  • The cardinal also created the Académie Française in 1635 to ensure the purity and clarity of the French language through its Dictionnaire and its Grammaire.


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