chrétien
French, noun
chrétien is spelled C-H-R-É-T-I-E-N (8 letters) and appears 19 times per million words in written French, the 4,050th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chrétien is a French masculine noun meaning “Christian” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Chrétien is a different word: “Christian (member of the Christian religion)”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Adepte de la religion de Jésus de Nazareth, dit Jésus-Christ”.
What does chrétien mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Christian
noun
- 1
masculineChristian
noun
- 1
masculineChristian (member of the Christian religion)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Qui professe la religion issue des enseignements de Jésus-Christ. 2. Qui appartient ou qui est propre au christianisme. 3. Qui adopte un comportement généreux, supposé conforme aux préceptes de la religion de Jésus-Christ.
noun: 1. Adepte de la religion de Jésus de Nazareth, dit Jésus-Christ. 2. Homme, personne.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de chrétien (au sens nominal).
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 chrétien
- chrétienne feminine
- chrétiens masculine plural
- chrétiennes feminine plural
- Chrétiens plural
- Chrétienne feminine
- Chrétien
- chrétien
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to chrétien
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chrétien in French?
chrétien appears 19 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).