colonat
French, noun/kɔ.lɔ.na/
colonat is spelled C-O-L-O-N-A-T (7 letters) and appears about once in every 54 million words in written French, the 231,570th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Colonat is a French masculine noun meaning “serfdom” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Condition de colon”.
What does colonat mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineserfdom
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Condition de colon. 2. Condition du servage, au début du Moyen Âge. 3. Sous le colonialisme, métayage où le colon loue une terre à un propriétaire en lui donnant un quart de sa récolte une fois celle-ci 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 colonat
- colonats plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce colonat?
- /kɔ.lɔ.na/
- \kɔ.lɔ.na\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is colonat in French?
colonat appears about once in every 54 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).