aubade
French, noun/o.bad/
aubade is spelled A-U-B-A-D-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 80,980th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aubade is a French feminine noun meaning “aubade (song; poem)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Concert donné en plein air, vers l’aube, à la porte ou sous les fenêtres d’une personne”.
What does aubade mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineaubade (song; poem)
- 2
feminineaubade (love song)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Concert donné en plein air, vers l’aube, à la porte ou sous les fenêtres d’une personne. 2. Insulte, avanie, peur faite avec vacarme à quelqu’un.
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 aubade
- aubades plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aubade?
- /o.bad/
- \o.bad\
- [o.bad]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aubade
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aubade in French?
aubade appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).