méditer
French, verb/me.di.te/
méditer is spelled M-É-D-I-T-E-R (7 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written French, the 15,330th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Méditer is a French verb meaning “to think over, ponder, reflect on” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Réfléchir sur quelque chose, l’examiner mûrement, de manière à l’approfondir”.
What does méditer mean in English?
verb
- 1
to think over, ponder, reflect on
- 2
to meditate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Réfléchir sur quelque chose, l’examiner mûrement, de manière à l’approfondir. 2. Projeter, penser à faire une chose, réfléchir aux moyens de l’exécuter. 3. Approfondir une pensée. 4. Faire une méditation pieuse.
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 méditer
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- méditant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- médité participle past
- médite first-person indicative present
- médites indicative present second-person
- méditons first-person indicative plural
- méditez indicative plural present
- méditent indicative plural present
- méditais first-person imperfect indicative
- méditait imperfect indicative singular
- méditions first-person imperfect indicative
- méditiez imperfect indicative plural
- méditaient imperfect indicative plural
- méditai first-person historic indicative
- méditas historic indicative past
- médita historic indicative past
- méditâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce méditer?
- /me.di.te/
- \me.di.te\
- [me.di.te]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to méditer
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is méditer in French?
méditer appears 3.2 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).