croiseur
French, noun/kʁwa.zœʁ/
croiseur is spelled C-R-O-I-S-E-U-R (8 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,948th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Croiseur is a French masculine noun meaning “cruiser (a type of warship)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Bâtiment de guerre, de combat, de grande taille”.
What does croiseur mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecruiser (a type of warship)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Bâtiment de guerre, de combat, de grande taille. 2. Bâtiment de guerre doué d’une grande vitesse et destiné à détruire le commerce des ennemis, à faire les reconnaissances, à éclairer les cuirassés.
suffix: 1. Suffixe utilisé pour signaler qu’un objet astronomique croise l’orbite d’un autre objet.
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 croiseur
- croiseurs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce croiseur?
- /kʁwa.zœʁ/
- \kʁwa.zœʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to croiseur
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is croiseur in French?
croiseur appears 1.0 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).