Noun: vent
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | vent |
| Plural m | vents |
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
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moulin à vent (windmill)
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petite pluie abat grand vent (a little kindness goes a long way)
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rose des vents (compass rose)
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qui sème le vent récolte la tempête (who sows the wind harvests the tempest)
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Toutes ces promesses, c'est du vent. (Those are empty promises.)
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se prendre un vent (to be completely blanked, to receive no answer, to be rebuffed by having one's advances ignored)
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mettre un vent à quelqu'un, faire un vent à quelqu'un, foutre un vent à quelqu'un (to ignore someone, to give someone the cold shoulder, to brush someone off, to diss someone)
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un gros vent, un énorme vent (a blast, a verbal attack or severe reprimand)
Nouns inflected like vent
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French vent, from Old French vent, from Latin ventus, from Proto-Italic *wentos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéh₁n̥ts < *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). See: Latin Nouns '
ventus'.
Verbs referencing "vent"
Old English Nouns
wind, English Nouns
vent.
Translations