pastour
French, noun/pas.tuʁ/
pastour is spelled P-A-S-T-O-U-R (7 letters) and appears about once in every 30 million words in written French, the 175,987th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Pastour is a French masculine noun meaning “sheperd” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Berger, gardien de moutons”.
What does pastour mean in English?
noun
- 1
archaicmasculinesheperd
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Berger, gardien de moutons.
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 pastour
- pastours plural
- pastoure feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pastour?
- /pas.tuʁ/
- \pas.tuʁ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is pastour in French?
pastour appears about once in every 30 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).