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animaliste

French, noun/a.ni.ma.list/

animaliste is spelled A-N-I-M-A-L-I-S-T-E (10 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 133,661st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Animaliste is a French feminine noun meaning “animal rights activist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui croit que l’embryon est formé dans la semence du mâle”.

What does animaliste mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininemasculineanimal rights activist

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Personne qui croit que l’embryon est formé dans la semence du mâle. 2. Personne qui défend les animaux pour eux-mêmes, considérations écologiques ou humanistes mises à part.

adjective: 1. Qui appartient à un mouvement militant dont l’objet est de défendre les animaux dans le cadre d’une idéologie faisant primer l'intérêt de l'animal, avant les considérations écologiques.

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 animaliste

  • animalistes plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce animaliste?

  • /a.ni.ma.list/
  • \a.ni.ma.list\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is animaliste in French?

animaliste appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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