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10,231 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

Cédric: a male given name from English Cedric, feminine equivalent Cédrika
Cédrika: a female given name from English Cedric, masculine equivalent Cédric, equivalent to English Cedrica
Cédron: Kidron (a valley in Israel)
Céfran: a French person
Céleste: a female given name, equivalent to English Celeste
Céleste Empire: Celestial Empire (China)
Céleste-Empire: Celestial Empire (China)
Célestial: Citizen of the Chinese Empire
Célia: a female given name, equivalent to English Celia
Céline: a female given name
Célony: a neighborhood of Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Célé: Célé (a tributary of the River Lot in south-western France).
Cénomanien: Cenomanian period
Céphalonie: Cephalonia (an island of Greece in the eastern Ionian Sea, the largest of the Ionian Islands)
Céphas: Cephas
Céphée: Cepheus
Céret: Céret (a small town in Pyrénées-Orientales department, Occitania)
Cérons: Cérons (a small town in Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
Cérynée: Ceryneia (a town and polis of ancient Achaea)
Cérès: Ceres (goddess)
Cérès: Ceres (dwarf planet)
César: Caesar (family name); Caesar (Julius Caesar); Caesar (any Roman emperor); a male given name, equivalent to English Cesar; a surname
Césarion: Caesarion
Césarée: Caesarea; Jersey
Césaréen: Caesarean (native or inhabitant of Caesarea) (usually male)
Cévennes: Cévennes
Cézanne: a surname; a female given name transferred from the surname
Cézembre: an uninhabited island in Brittany, in the Ille-et-Vilaine département of France, near Saint-Malo
Cîteaux: Cîteaux
Côme: a male given name, equivalent to English Cosmo; Como (a city and comune, the capital of the province of Como, Lombardy); Como (a province of Lombardy, Italy)
Cône Sud: Southern Cone
Côte d'Azur: Côte d’Azur (a coast in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, on the Mediterranean), the French Riviera
Côte d'Ivoire: Ivory Coast, Côte d'Ivoire (a country in West Africa)
Côte d'Or: the Côte d'Or département (equivalent of a county) in France’s eastern region Bourgogne (Burgundy); the Côte d'Or chain of hills West of the Saône valley, which the above département was named after
Côte française des Somalis: French Somaliland (a former colony of France in Africa; modern Djibouti)
Côte-Nord: a region of Quebec, Canada
Côte-d'Or: Côte-d'Or (a department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France)
Côtes-d'Armor: Côtes-d'Armor (a department of Brittany, France)
Côtes-du-Nord: former name of Côtes-d'Armor
Côté: a surname
Cœlé-Syrie: Coele-Syria (an ancient Hellenistic region in modern Syria, referring to the Beqaa Valley between the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains); Coele-Syria (a former province of the Late Roman Empire, in existence from 198 to c. 400 AD)
Cœur: a French surname, equivalent to English Heart
Cⁱᵉ: abbreviation of compagnie — company; abbreviation of compagnie — Co. (company)
c': apocopic form of ce
c'en est assez: enough is enough
c'est au fruit que l'on connaît l'arbre: the proof of the pudding is in the eating
c'est bien le diable si: I'll be damned if...
c'est cela: yeah, right! my eye! tell it to the marines!
c'est celui qui dit qui l'est: I know you are but what am I? takes one to know one!
c'est combien: how much is it?
c'est comme si c'était fait: consider it done; it's as good as done
c'est d'un chic: very classy!
c'est dans le besoin qu'on reconnaît ses vrais amis: a friend in need is a friend indeed (if a friend is by your side when you are in need, they are a true friend)
c'est dans les vieux pots qu'on fait la meilleure soupe: tried and tested methods are the best ones
c'est de l'hébreu: it's all Greek to me (a phrase indicating that something's impossible to understand)
c'est de la merde: that's shite
c'est de la moutarde après dîner: it's like closing the stable door after the horse has bolted
c'est dire: it goes to show!
c'est du beau: that's just great! lovely! what a mess!
c'est du chinois: it's all Greek to me (a phrase indicating that something is impossible to understand)