soirée
French, noun/swa.ʁe/
soirée is a French feminine noun meaning “evening” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Espace de temps depuis le déclin du jour jusqu’au moment où l’on se couche (par exemple entre 18 et 24…”.
What does soirée mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineevening
- 2
feminineevening activity, party
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Espace de temps depuis le déclin du jour jusqu’au moment où l’on se couche (par exemple entre 18 et 24 heures). 2. Fête, spectacle ou réunion que l’on organise à ce moment de la journée.
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 soirée
- soirées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce soirée?
- /swa.ʁe/
- \swa.ʁe\
- [ɑ̃ swa.ʁe]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to soirée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is soirée in French?
soirée appears 100 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).