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tourangeau

French, adjective

tourangeau is a French adjective meaning “of, from or relating to the city of Tours, the prefecture of the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire, France” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Tourangeau is a different word: “native or inhabitant of the city of Tours, the prefecture of the…”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Relatif à Tours, commune française située dans le département de l’Indre-et-Loire”.

What does tourangeau mean in English?

adjective

  1. 1

    of, from or relating to the city of Tours, the prefecture of the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire, France

  2. 2

    of, from or relating to Touraine, a former province of central France

  3. 3

    of, from or relating to Touraine, a neighbourhood of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

noun

as Tourangeau
  1. 1

    masculinenative or inhabitant of the city of Tours, the prefecture of the Indre-et-Loire department, Centre-Val de Loire, France (usually male)

  2. 2

    masculinenative or inhabitant of Touraine, a former province of central France (usually male)

  3. 3

    masculinenative or inhabitant of Touraine, a neighbourhood of the city of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (usually male)

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

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Habitant de Tours, commune française située dans le département de l’Indre-et-Loire. 2. Habitant de l’ancienne région de la Touraine, en France. 3. Habitant de Touraine, secteur de la ville québécoise de Gatineau ^([1]).

adjective: 1. Relatif à Tours, commune française située dans le département de l’Indre-et-Loire. 2. Relatif à l’ancienne région de la Touraine, en France. 3. Relatif à Touraine, secteur de la ville québécoise de Gatineau ^([1]).

noun: 1. Langue d’oïl parlée en Touraine, presque disparue aujourd'hui.

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 tourangeau

  • Tourangeaux plural
  • Tourangelle feminine
  • tourangelle feminine
  • tourangeaux masculine plural
  • tourangelles feminine plural

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

How common is tourangeau in French?

tourangeau appears about once in every 3 million words in written French.

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