cœur de pierre
French, noun/kœʁ də pjɛʁ/
cœur de pierre is spelled C-Œ-U-R-D-E-P-I-E-R-R-E (12 letters). Cœur de pierre is a French masculine noun meaning “heart of stone (an unemotional person, or their "heart" (their cooler emotional nature) itself)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne sans compassion, sans pitié”.
What does cœur de pierre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineheart of stone (an unemotional person, or their "heart" (their cooler emotional nature) itself)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne sans compassion, sans pitié.
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 cœur de pierre
- cœurs de pierre plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce cœur de pierre?
- /kœʁ də pjɛʁ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.