anabase
French, noun/a.na.baz/
anabase is spelled A-N-A-B-A-S-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written French, the 130,697th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Anabase is a French feminine noun meaning “anabasis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ascension de l’esprit”.
What does anabase mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineanabasis
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Ascension de l’esprit. 2. Expédition militaire (en référence à lAnabase de Xénophon).
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 anabase
- anabases plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce anabase?
- /a.na.baz/
- \a.na.baz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is anabase in French?
anabase appears about once in every 16 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).