bronze
French, noun
bronze is spelled B-R-O-N-Z-E (6 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,416th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Bronze is a French masculine noun meaning “bronze (metal, work of art)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of bronzer. With an accent, bronzé is a different word: “past participle of bronzer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Alliage de cuivre, d’étain et accessoirement de plusieurs autres métaux (zinc, fer, plomb)”.
What does bronze mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinebronze (metal, work of art)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of bronzer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Alliage de cuivre, d’étain et accessoirement de plusieurs autres métaux (zinc, fer, plomb). 2. Toute sculpture ou morceau de sculpture fait de bronze. 3. Cuivre pur et le cuivre allié. 4. Âge du bronze.
noun: 1. Couleur brun doré. #614E1A
adjective: 1. Dont la couleur se rapproche du bronze. 2. Endurci. 3. Foncé. 4. De teint basané.
noun: 1. Personne à la couleur de peau foncée ou noire. 2. Synonyme de cuivré commun (papillon).
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 bronze
- bronzes plural
- bronzée feminine
- bronzés masculine plural
- bronzées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to bronze
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is bronze in French?
bronze appears 17 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).