normalien
French, noun/nɔʁ.ma.ljɛ̃/
normalien is spelled N-O-R-M-A-L-I-E-N (9 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written French, the 55,146th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Normalien is a French masculine noun meaning “a student or graduate of the École normale supérieure” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Ancien élève d’une école normale départementale d’instituteurs”.
What does normalien mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea student or graduate of the École normale supérieure
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Relatif à l'école normale.
noun: 1. Ancien élève d’une école normale départementale d’instituteurs. 2. Élève ou ancien élève de l’École normale supérieure de la rue d’Ulm à Paris (ENS Ulm), de l’École normale supérieure de Cachan (ENS Cachan), de l’École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon), de l’École normale supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud (ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud dite ENS-LSH) ou de l’École normale supérieure de Rennes (ENS Rennes).
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 normalien
- normaliens plural
- normalienne feminine
- normaliennes plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce normalien?
- /nɔʁ.ma.ljɛ̃/
- \nɔʁ.ma.ljɛ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is normalien in French?
normalien 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).