canonnière
French, noun/ka.nɔ.njɛʁ/
canonnière is a French feminine noun meaning “gunboat” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Petit bâtiment armé d’un ou de plusieurs canons”.
What does canonnière mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegunboat
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Petit bâtiment armé d’un ou de plusieurs canons. 2. Embrasure pour tirer à couvert. 3. Ouverture dans un mur, au fond des écluses, pour l'écoulement des eaux. 4. Tente, en pyramide, qui n'a que le toit.
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 canonnière
- canonnières plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce canonnière?
- /ka.nɔ.njɛʁ/
- \ka.nɔ.njɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to canonnière
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is canonnière in French?
canonnière 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).