Dictionary

Look up any word

2,401 words — headwords with part of speech, pronunciation, and a plain-language definition.

vendable: sellable; saleable
vendange: vintage (yield of grapes for wine-making); grapes harvested for wine-making; grape harvest season
vendanger: to vintage
vendangeur: vintager (grape picker/harvester)
venderesse: vendress, female seller
vendetta: blood feud, vendetta
vendeur: sellable; able to sell a lot
vendeur: salesman; seller, vendor
vendeur de rue: hawker (selling goods to passers-by)
vendeur de sommeil: synonym of marchand de sommeil
vendeuse: saleswoman
vendre: to sell; to sell out (betray)
vendre du rêve: to sell hope, to peddle snake oil, to be a purveyor of dreams; to be the stuff dreams are made of, to sound absolutely great; to be too much (to be someone who is absurdly funny or ridiculous by one's behaviour)
vendre la mèche: to spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag
vendre père et mère: to sell one's own grandmother (used to say that one is ready to do anything)
vendre son corps: to sell one's body
vendre son âme au diable: to sell one's soul to the devil
vendredi: Friday
vendredi fou: Black Friday (shopping day in November)
vendredi noir: Black Friday
vendredi saint: Good Friday
vendu: corrupt
vendu: a sellout (sense 2)
vendu: it's a deal! deal!
vendéen: Vendean
vendémiaire: Vendémiaire (the first month of the French Republican Calendar)
vendômois: of Vendôme
venelle: alley
veneur: hunter, huntsman (with hounds)
vengeance: revenge, vengeance
venger: to avenge, to take revenge (upon)
vengeur: vengeful
vengeur: avenger
venimeusement: venomously, poisonously
venimeux: poisonous, venomous (for animals)
venimosité: venomousness
venin: venom (poison); venom, vitriol (feeling of malign or contempt)
venir: to come (to move from one place to another that is nearer the speaker); See venir de.
venir au monde: to be born
venir aux nouvelles: to find out what's going on, to come see what's happening, to come get the news
venir avec: to come along, come with, join
venir de: to come from, to be from, to originate from; to have just done
venir du cœur: to come straight from the heart, to be heartfelt
venir en aide: to come to someone's aid
venir en âge: to come of age, (specifically) to turn twenty-one years of age
venir à bout: to overcome, to manage to finish
venir à l'esprit: to spring to mind, to come to mind, to cross someone's mind
vent: wind; flatulence; empty words, hot air; wind instrument
vent debout: strongly opposed
vent dominant: prevailing wind
vent interstellaire: solar wind
vent solaire: solar wind
vent stellaire: stellar wind
vent travers: beam reach
ventail: post-1990 spelling of vantail
ventaille: alternative spelling of ventail
vente: sale
vente aux enchères: auction (public event where goods or property are sold to the highest bidder)
vente de garage: garage sale
vente pyramidale: pyramid scheme