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

vous-même: yourself
vous-mêmes: yourselves
voussoir: voussoir
voussure: the curving profile of an arch
voute: post-1990 spelling of voûte
vouter: post-1990 spelling of voûter
vouvoiement: the use of formal register, addressing someone with the polite vous-form
vouvouzela: alternative spelling of vuvuzela
vouvoyer: to address someone using the formal pronoun vous rather than the informal tu, to use the V-form, to "you" (as opposed to "thou")
voxto: A voice message, particularly one sent by SMS.
voy.: see, vid.
voyable: visible
voyage: trip, journey, voyage; travel; load, wagonload, truckload
voyage d'affaires: business trip
voyage dans le temps: time travel
voyage de noces: honeymoon (trip taken by a newly wed married couple)
voyageant: travel-hungry
voyager: to travel, to voyage
voyageur: traveller
voyageur: nomadic, wandering
voyagiste: tour operator
voyance: the apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses; mind-reading
voyant: clairvoyant; showy, gaudy, conspicuous; staring
voyant: seer, clairvoyant; light (e.g. on a car dashboard); dayboard
voyelle: vowel
voyelle antérieure: front vowel (vowel sound produced in the front of the mouth)
voyelle postérieure: back vowel (vowel sound produced in the back of the mouth)
voyelle thématique: thematic vowel, stem vowel
voyent: archaic spelling of voient, third-person plural present indicative of voir; archaic spelling of voient, third-person plural present subjunctive of voir
voyer: a civil servant whose work is connected to roads, waterways, or railways
voyeur: observer; watcher; voyeur, peeping tom
voyeurisme: voyeurism (derivation of sexual satisfaction by watching people secretly)
voyeuriste: voyeuristic
voyez-vous: you see
voyons: really!; yeah right!
voyons voir: let's see, let me see
voyou: urchin, street child; thug, yob, hooligan; good for nothing
voyoucratie: mob rule
voïvodat: voivodeship (office)
voïvode: voivode
voïvodie: voivodeship (area)
voûte: arch; vault
voûte céleste: welkin, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven, celestial vault, sky, heavens
voûte d'ogives: ribbed vault
voûte palatine: hard palate
voûtement: vaulting (collectively, the vaults of a building or structure)
voûter: to vault a ceiling; to cause to stoop
vrac: bulk (goods sold and transported unpackaged in large amounts)
vrai: true; real, proper; honest, sincere, truthful
vrai: true; truly
vrai: truth
vrai de vrai: lout, bandit, thug; real (used to insist on the fact that something or someone has all the characteristics to be called in some way)
vrai de vrai: really (used when you want to emphasize that something is true)
vrai ou faux: true or false quiz
vraie vie: real life; real world
vraiement: obsolete spelling of vraiment; misspelling of vraiment
vraiment: really? for real?
vraiment: truly, really, genuinely; really; very
vraisemblable: plausible, likely
vraisemblablement: probably