venaison
French, noun/və.nɛ.zɔ̃/
venaison is a French feminine noun meaning “venison (meat)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Chair de grand gibier, comme le cerf, le daim, le chevreuil, le sanglier, etc”.
What does venaison mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininevenison (meat)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Chair de grand gibier, comme le cerf, le daim, le chevreuil, le sanglier, etc. 2. Embonpoint du cerf.
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 venaison
- venaisons plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce venaison?
- /və.nɛ.zɔ̃/
- /və.ne.zɔ̃/
- \və.nɛ.zɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to venaison
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is venaison in French?
venaison appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).