Noun: revers
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
Sample Sentences
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L'étude révèle un revers préoccupant à cette adoption. [2025 June 25, Geneviève van Lede, “ChatGPT, Gemini… penser le management à l'ère de l'IA”, in La Provence, →ISSN, Grand Sud:]
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Au secours, seigneurs, au secours ! venez à l’aide de mon seigneur, qui est engagé dans la plus formidable et la plus sanglante bataille que mes yeux aient jamais vue. Vive Dieu ! il a porté un tel revers au géant ennemi de madame la princesse Micomicona, qu’il lui a tranché la tête à rasibus des épaules, comme si c’eût été un navet. (Help, good sirs, help! Come to the help of my master, who is engaged in the most formidable and the most bloody battle that my eyes have ever seen. By God! He delivered such a backhand to the giant enemy of the lady princess of Micomicona that he sliced off his head cleanly from the shoulders, as if it had been a turnip.) [1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cⁱᵉ, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like revers
droit de cuissage,
diméthylmercure,
ice tea,
ekamanganèse,
sativa,
Androphages,
scalap,
schuss,
aminométhane,
développement personnel,
sucre farine,
slavon,
soulas,
souabe,
sorabe,
somali,
soccer,
sodium,
javanais,
as des as, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French revers, from Latin reversus. See: Latin Nouns '
reversus'.
Verbs referencing "revers"
English Nouns
revers, Dutch Nouns
revers, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
revers, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
revers, Romanian Nouns
revers, German Nouns
Revers, Romanian Nouns
rever, Polish Nouns
rewers, Swedish Nouns
revär.
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