glose
French, noun
glose is spelled G-L-O-S-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 6 million words in written French, the 81,899th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glose is a French feminine noun meaning “gloss (explanatory note)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of gloser. With an accent, glosé is a different word: “past participle of gloser”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Mot vieilli ou difficile, recueilli dans les auteurs grecs et expliqué”.
What does glose mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininegloss (explanatory note)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of gloser
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Mot vieilli ou difficile, recueilli dans les auteurs grecs et expliqué. 2. Note explicative servant à l’éclaircissement sur les mots ou sur le sens d’un texte, dans la même langue que le texte, explication mise d’ordinaire en marge. 3. Commentaires des glossateurs qui accompagnent certains textes. 4. Parodie rimée d’une pièce de poésie dont on répète un vers à la fin de chaque stance.
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 glose
- gloses plural
- glosée feminine
- glosés masculine plural
- glosées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to glose
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glose in French?
glose appears about once in every 6 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).