seine
French, noun
seine is spelled S-E-I-N-E (5 letters) and appears 41 times per million words in written French, the 2,034th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Seine is a French feminine noun meaning “seine (for fishing)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of seiner. With an accent, seiné is a different word: “past participle of seiner”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Filet de pêche encerclant et traînant, mis à l’eau à partir d’une embarcation, et manœuvré soit du rivage…”.
What does seine mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineseine (for fishing)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of seiner
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Filet de pêche encerclant et traînant, mis à l’eau à partir d’une embarcation, et manœuvré soit du rivage, soit à partir du bateau lui-même.
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 seine
- seines plural
- seinée feminine
- seinés masculine plural
- seinées feminine plural
- senne
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to seine
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is seine in French?
seine appears 41 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).