police secrète
French, noun/pɔ.lis sə.kʁɛt/
police secrète is spelled P-O-L-I-C-E-S-E-C-R-È-T-E (13 letters). Police secrète is a French feminine noun meaning “secret police (police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law and hidden from the public, usually in support of…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does police secrète mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesecret police (police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law and hidden from the public, usually in support of a totalitarian government's political policies to suppress political dissent through the use of methods including intimidation, violence, and surveillance)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of police secrète
- polices secrètes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce police secrète?
- /pɔ.lis sə.kʁɛt/
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.