prieuré
French, noun
prieuré is spelled P-R-I-E-U-R-É (7 letters) and appears 2.5 times per million words in written French, the 18,149th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Prieuré is a French masculine noun meaning “priory (religious building)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). Without its accent, prieure is a different word: “prioress”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Couvent dirigé par un prieur ou par une prieure”.
What does prieuré mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepriory (religious building)
noun
- 1
feminineprioress
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Supérieure dans un monastère de femmes, soit en chef, soit sous une abbesse.
noun: 1. Couvent dirigé par un prieur ou par une prieure. 2. Église et bâtiments d’un couvent dirigé par un prieur ou une prieure. 3. Maison du prieur ou de la prieure.
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 prieuré
- prieurés plural
- prieures plural
- prieur masculine
- prieuresse
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to prieuré
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is prieuré in French?
prieuré appears 2.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).