marbrière
French, noun\maʁ.bʁjɛʁ\
marbrière is spelled M-A-R-B-R-I-È-R-E (9 letters) and appears about once in every 56 million words in written French, the 236,816th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Marbrière is a French feminine noun meaning “marble quarry” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Carrière d’où l’on tire le marbre”.
What does marbrière mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemarble quarry
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Carrière d’où l’on tire le marbre. 2. Celle qui travaille le marbre. 3. Celle qui fait le commerce du marbre.
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 marbrière
- marbrières plural
- marbrier masculine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce marbrière?
- \maʁ.bʁjɛʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is marbrière in French?
marbrière appears about once in every 56 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).