amour
French, noun/a.muʁ/
amour is spelled A-M-O-U-R (5 letters) and appears 200 times per million words in written French, the 411th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Amour is a French feminine noun meaning “love” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sentiment intense et agréable qui incite les êtres à s’unir”.
What does amour mean in English?
noun
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Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sentiment intense et agréable qui incite les êtres à s’unir. 2. Affection profonde pour quelqu’un ou quelque chose. Affect éprouvé lié à la libido qui fait tendre le sujet vers un objet affectif qui peut être une autre personne ou une partie d’une autre personne ou un objet. 3. Plaisir, intérêt, voire obsession. 4. Copulation, relation sexuelle, union charnelle.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of amour
- amours plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce amour?
- /a.muʁ/
- \a.muʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to amour
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is amour in French?
amour appears 200 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).