chrétienne
French, noun
chrétienne is spelled C-H-R-É-T-I-E-N-N-E (10 letters) and appears 17 times per million words in written French, the 4,323rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chrétienne is a French feminine noun meaning “female equivalent of chrétien” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a feminine singular of chrétien. With a capital, Chrétienne is a different word: “female equivalent of Chrétien”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Femme ou fille adepte de la religion de Jésus de Nazareth, dit Jésus-Christ”.
What does chrétienne mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininefeminine singular of chrétien
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of chrétien
noun
- 1
femininefemale equivalent of Chrétien
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Femme ou fille adepte de la religion de Jésus de Nazareth, dit Jésus-Christ. 2. Femme.
noun: 1. Variante orthographique de chrétienne.
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 chrétienne
- chrétiennes plural
- chrétien masculine
- Chrétiennes plural
- Chrétien masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to chrétienne
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chrétienne in French?
chrétienne 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).