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narbonnais

French, adjective

narbonnais is spelled N-A-R-B-O-N-N-A-I-S (10 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written French, the 73,020th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Narbonnais is a French adjective meaning “of, from or relating to the town of Narbonne, Aude department, Occitania, France” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Narbonnais is a different word: “native or inhabitant of the town of Narbonne, Aude department…”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à Narbonne, commune française située dans le département de l’Aude”.

What does narbonnais mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    of, from or relating to the town of Narbonne, Aude department, Occitania, France

noun

as Narbonnais
  1. 1

    masculinenative or inhabitant of the town of Narbonne, Aude department, Occitania, France (usually male)

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Habitant de Narbonne, commune française située dans le département de l’Aude.

adjective: 1. Relatif à Narbonne, commune française située dans le département de l’Aude.

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 narbonnais

  • narbonnaise feminine
  • narbonnaises feminine plural
  • Narbonnaise feminine

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

How common is narbonnais in French?

narbonnais appears about once in every 5 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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