plumier
French, noun/ply.mje/
plumier is a French masculine noun meaning “pencil box” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Boîte de forme allongée où les écoliers mettent des plumes, des porte-plume, des crayons, etc”.
What does plumier mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepencil box
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Boîte de forme allongée où les écoliers mettent des plumes, des porte-plume, des crayons, etc. 2. Trousse, étui en général. 3. Lit. référence nécessaire (résoudre le problème) → voir plumard, plume
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 plumier
- plumiers plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce plumier?
- /ply.mje/
- \ply.mje\
- [ply.mje]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is plumier in French?
plumier appears about once in every 8 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).