dressage
French, noun/dʁɛ.saʒ/
dressage is a French masculine noun meaning “training” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action de dresser”.
What does dressage mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetraining
- 2
masculinedressage
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Action de dresser. 2. Discipline olympique des sports équestres qui teste la qualité de la communication entre le cheval et son cavalier et recherche des mouvements gracieux du cheval. 3. Positionnement des éléments d’un plat dans une assiette.
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 dressage
- dressages plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce dressage?
- /dʁɛ.saʒ/
- /dʁe.saʒ/
- \dʁɛ.saʒ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to dressage
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is dressage in French?
dressage appears 1.7 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).