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serrement

French, noun

serrement is a French masculine noun meaning “handshake (serrement de main)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, serrément is a different word: “tightly”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de serrer”.

What does serrement mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehandshake (serrement de main)

  2. 2

    masculinepang (serrement de coeur)

adverb

as serrément
  1. 1

    tightly

  2. 2

    sparingly

  3. 3

    stingily

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action de serrer.

adverb: 1. D’une manière serrée, parcimonieuse, avare.

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 serrement

  • serrements plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How common is serrement in French?

serrement appears about once in every 13 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).