bollard
French, noun/bɔ.laʁ/
bollard is spelled B-O-L-L-A-R-D (7 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written French, the 231,570th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bollard is a French masculine noun meaning “bollard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bitte d’amarrage, élément fixe situé sur le quai pour amarrer un bateau dans les ports”.
What does bollard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebollard
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bitte d’amarrage, élément fixe situé sur le quai pour amarrer un bateau dans les ports. 2. Élément physique marquant la séparation d’une zone piétonnière d'une voie routière. Dans ce sens, on dit aussi borne de protection, borne d’interdiction ou potelet.
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 bollard
- bollards plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce bollard?
- /bɔ.laʁ/
- \bɔ.laʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to bollard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bollard in French?
bollard appears about once in every 54 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).