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monde

French, noun

monde is spelled M-O-N-D-E (5 letters) and appears 912 times per million words in written French, the 104th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Monde is a French masculine noun meaning “world” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, mondé is a different word: “past participle of monder”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ensemble des choses et des êtres existants”.

What does monde mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculineworld

    C'est la plus belle fille du monde.

  2. 2

    masculinepeople

    Le monde m'agace quelquefois.

interjection

  1. 1

    good heavens

adjective

  1. 1

    archaicpure; clean

verb

as mondé
  1. 1

    past participle of monder

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Ensemble des choses et des êtres existants. 2. Ensemble des corps célestes dont le Soleil est le centre. 3. Sous-ensemble de choses ou d’êtres vus collectivement sous l'angle d'un point commun. 4. Planète.

adjective: 1. Pur. Note d’usage : Ne s’emploie quasiment que dans les traductions de la Bible, où cet adjectif est opposé à immonde. 2. Convenable, séant.

noun: 1. Langue possiblement éteinte parlée dans l’État de Rondônia au Brésil. Son code ISO 639-3 est mnd.

adjective: 1. Qui a subi un mondage.

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 monde

  • mondes plural
  • mondée feminine
  • mondés masculine plural
  • mondées feminine plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

English words that translate to monde

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is monde in French?

monde appears 912 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).

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