soulard
French, noun
soulard is a French masculine noun meaning “post-1990 spelling of soûlard” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, soûlard is a different word: “drunk; drunkard; toper”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne s'adonnant à la boisson, alcoolique, ivrogne. → voir soûlard, orthographe traditionnelle”.
What does soulard mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepost-1990 spelling of soûlard
noun
- 1
derogatorymasculinedrunk; drunkard; toper
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne s’adonnant à la boisson, alcoolique, ivrogne.
adjective: 1. Relafif à l'ivrognerie.
noun: 1. Personne s'adonnant à la boisson, alcoolique, ivrogne. → voir soûlard, orthographe traditionnelle.
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 soulard
- soûlards plural
- soûlarde feminine
- saoulard alternative
- soulard alternative
- soulards plural
- soularde feminine
- soulardes plural feminine
- soûlard
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to soulard
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is soulard in French?
soulard appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).