Noun: monde
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | monde |
| Plural m | mondes |
Sample Sentences
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C'est la plus belle fille du monde. (She is the most beautiful girl in the world.)
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Le monde m'agace quelquefois. (People annoy me sometimes.)
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La salle était noire de monde. (The room was full of people.)
Nouns inflected like monde
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French monde (12th c.), semi-learned form of mont (10th c.), itself inherited from Latin mundus. The alteration was likely driven by the desire to distinguish from unrelated mont (“mountain”). See: Latin Nouns '
mundus'.
Verbs referencing "monde"
Spanish Nouns
mundo, English Nouns
monde.
Translations