demi-lune
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9 characters
Language
French
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demi-lune is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ouvrage de fortification correspondant à une porte et construit en avant d’une courtine pour couvrir la contrescarpe et le fossé. Pronounced \də.mi.lyn\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | demi-lune |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \də.mi.lyn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for demi-lune is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \də.mi.lyn\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for demi-lune in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is demi-lune, spelled D-E-M-I---L-U-N-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Ouvrage de fortification correspondant à une porte et construit en avant d’une courtine pour couvrir la contrescarpe et le fossé.
- 2Partie circulaire à l’entrée d’un palais, à l’extrémité d’un jardin, à la rencontre de plusieurs allées, de plusieurs routes.
- 3Forme de demi-cercle, de croissant de lune.
- 4Outil dont se servent les plâtriers pour gratter les parties arrondies.
- 5Pâte alimentaire fourrée en forme de demi-lune.
- 6Synonyme de hachoir berceuse.
- 7Rampe de neige.
- 8Arc de cercle situé devant la surface de réparation, non comptabilisé comme en faisant partie, dans lequel il est interdit aux joueurs de pénétrer lors d’un penalty, à l’exception du tireur.
- 9Instrument tranchant utilisé parfois dans les corridas.
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