serge
French, noun
serge is a French feminine noun meaning “twill, serge” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, sergé is a different word: “twill”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Étoffe légère et croisée, ordinairement faite de laine”.
What does serge mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininetwill, serge
noun
- 1
masculinetwill
- 2
masculineserge, baize
verb
- 1
past participle of serger
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Étoffe légère et croisée, ordinairement faite de laine. 2. Partie non taillée de la jante d'une roue dentée. 3. Jante entière, avec ses dents.
noun: 1. Tissu croisé qui ressemble à de la serge.
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 serge
- serges plural
- sarge alternative obsolete
- sergés plural
- sergée feminine
- sergées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to serge
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is serge in French?
serge appears 17 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).