avide
French, adjective/a.vid/
avide is spelled A-V-I-D-E (5 letters) and appears 2.2 times per million words in written French, the 19,241st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Avide is a French adjective meaning “avid, eager, desirous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qui désire quelque chose avec beaucoup d’ardeur”.
What does avide mean in English?
adjective
- 1
avid, eager, desirous
- 2
greedy, grasping
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui désire quelque chose avec beaucoup d’ardeur. 2. En parlant de choses, avec le même sens. 3. Qui a une attention passionnée. 4. Qui a un grand désir de manger.
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 avide
- avides plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce avide?
- /a.vid/
- \a.vid\
- [a.vid]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to avide
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is avide in French?
avide appears 2.2 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).