disciple
French, noun/di.sipl/
disciple is a French masculine noun meaning “disciple” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Personne qui apprend d’un maître quelque science ou quelque art libéral”.
What does disciple mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinedisciple
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Personne qui apprend d’un maître quelque science ou quelque art libéral. 2. Personne qui suit la doctrine d’un autre, qui s’attache à ses principes, à ses sentiments, surtout quand il s’agit des doctrines politiques, religieuses ou philosophiques.
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 disciple
- disciples plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce disciple?
- /di.sipl/
- \di.sipl\
- [di.sipl]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to disciple
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is disciple in French?
disciple appears 4.4 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).