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maître d'école: primary school teacher
maître d'œuvre: master builder; project manager
maître de ballet: ballet master
maître de chapelle: chapelmaster (director of music in a chapel)
maître de conf: lecturer, associate professor
maître de conférences: associate professor
maître de cérémonie: master of ceremonies, MC; marshal
maître de maison: host (person who allows a guest)
maître principal: Military rank used in Francophone navies usually equivalent to the army rank of adjudant-chef or approximately the United States Navy rank of master chief petty officer; principal master
maître principal-major: Military rank in the navy equivalent to adjudant-chef major or to major in other Francophone countries; senior principal master
maître à penser: mentor, guru, maître à penser; thought leader, authority
maître-assistant: associate professor; lecturer
maître-autel: high altar
maître-chanteur: blackmailer (someone who blackmails); mastersinger (a German lyric poet of the late Middle Ages)
maître-chef: (DRC) Military rank equivalent to adjutant; chief master
maître-chef principal: (DRC) Military rank equivalent to chief adjutant; principal chief master
maître-chien: dog handler
maître-cylindre: master cylinder
maître-mot: watchword, byword, name of the game, key, keyword, guiding principle
maître-nageur: swimming instructor, swimming trainer, swimming coach; lifeguard (attendant employed to save swimmers in trouble or near drowning)
maîtresse: mistress; female teacher (in a primary school)
maîtresse d'école: schoolmarm
maîtresse de maison: housewife; hostess; bawd, mistress of a brothel (see maison close, maison de tolérance)
maîtrisable: masterable, manageable
maîtrise: mastery; control; master's degree
maîtriser: to master, have authority over somebody; to dominate, overcome, conquer, control; be master of; to master, to be able to, to know how to accomplish very well
maïa: alternative spelling of maja
maïakovskien: a Mayakovskian
maïakovskien: Mayakovskian
maïeur: alternative spelling of mayeur
maïeuticien: A male midwife; a midwife (regardless of gender).; A practitioner of maieutics, i.e. the Socratic method.
maïeutique: midwifery; maieutics, Socratic method
maïeutique: maieutic, Socratic
maïeutiquement: maieutically, Socratically
maïoral: mayoral
maïorat: role of a mayor
maïs: corn, maize
maïs lessivé: hominy (lye-washed maize (corn))
maïs soufflé: popcorn
maïs éclaté: popcorn
maïserie: corn processing factory
maïzena: cornflour / cornstarch
mbalakh: mbalax (music style)
mbalax: mbalax (music style)
mbila: jake, police
mcx: pcs. (pieces)
mdp: initialism of mot de passe
mdr: LOL
me: me (direct object); me (indirect object)
me diras-tu: I hear you say, I hear you cry, you may ask, you may say, some will ask, some will say
me direz-vous: I hear you say, I hear you cry, you may ask, you may say, some will ask, some will say
mea culpa: mea culpa
mec: guy, fellow, bloke, chap, dude, boyfriend; pimp
mechta: a small village in North Africa
mecklembourgeois: of Mecklenburg
mecspliquer: mansplain
meeting: large, public gathering (not used in other senses of "meeting")
megafusée: megarocket
megam: Megam
meilleur: best