atérien
French, noun\a.te.ʁjɛ̃\
atérien is spelled A-T-É-R-I-E-N (7 letters) and appears about once in every 62 million words in written French, the 247,574th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Atérien is a French masculine noun meaning “Aterian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Faciès industriel d’Afrique du Nord, correspondant plus ou moins à la fin du paléolithique moyen et au début…”.
What does atérien mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineAterian
adjective
- 1
Aterian
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Faciès industriel d’Afrique du Nord, correspondant plus ou moins à la fin du paléolithique moyen et au début du paléolithique supérieur.
noun: 1. Personne appartenant à la culture atérienne.
adjective: 1. Relatif à l’Atérien.
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 atérien
- atériens plural
- atérienne feminine
- atériennes feminine plural
- Atériens plural
- Atérienne feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce atérien?
- \a.te.ʁjɛ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is atérien in French?
atérien appears about once in every 62 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).