méandre
French, noun
méandre is spelled M-É-A-N-D-R-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 59,168th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Méandre is a French masculine noun meaning “meander (winding, crooked or involved course)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of méandrer. With an accent, méandré is a different word: “past participle of méandrer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sinuosité d’un fleuve, d’une rivière, par allusion au fleuve de Phrygie qui portait ce nom”.
What does méandre mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemeander (winding, crooked or involved course)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of méandrer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sinuosité d’un fleuve, d’une rivière, par allusion au fleuve de Phrygie qui portait ce nom. 2. Chose tortueuse. 3. Configuration dans un plan formée par deux courbes planes simples se coupant transversalement.
adjective: 1. Plein de méandres, sinueux.
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 méandre
- méandres plural
- méandrée feminine
- méandrés masculine plural
- méandrées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to méandre
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is méandre in French?
méandre appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).