batelier
French, noun/ba.tə.lje/
batelier is a French masculine noun meaning “riverboatman” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne dont la profession est de conduire un bateau, principalement sur une rivière”.
What does batelier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineriverboatman
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif aux bateliers et batelières.
noun: 1. Personne dont la profession est de conduire un bateau, principalement sur une rivière.
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 batelier
- bateliers plural
- batelière feminine
- batelières plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce batelier?
- /ba.tə.lje/
- \ba.tə.lje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to batelier
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is batelier in French?
batelier appears about once in every 5 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).