clôture
French, noun
clôture is spelled C-L-Ô-T-U-R-E (7 letters) and appears 13 times per million words in written French, the 5,537th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Clôture is a French feminine noun meaning “fence; hedge, wall” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of clôturer. With an accent, clôturé is a different word: “past participle of clôturer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Enceinte qui peut être constituée de murs, de haies, de barrières, etc”.
What does clôture mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininefence; hedge, wall
- 2
feminineclosing, closure (of a business, shop, argument etc.)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular present imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of clôturer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Enceinte qui peut être constituée de murs, de haies, de barrières, etc. 2. Obligation que les religieuses cloîtrées ont de ne pas sortir de leur monastère. 3. Partie d'un couvent réservée aux religieux. 4. Action d’arrêter, de terminer une chose, ou de déclarer qu’elle est terminée.
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 clôture
- clôtures plural
- clôturée feminine
- clôturés masculine plural
- clôturées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to clôture
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is clôture in French?
clôture appears 13 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).