Noun: gril
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | gril |
| Plural m | grils |
Sample Sentences
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1944, Jean-Paul Sartre, Huis-clos (No Exit), Act 1, sc. 5 (I would never have believed it... you remember: the fire, the brimstone, the torment...)
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retourner sur le gril d'école (suffer the torment of school (literally "turn over on the grill"))
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passer sur le gril (rake over the coals)
Nouns inflected like gril
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
At least 1300s, from Middle French gril, from Old French greïl, graïl (“gridiron”), from graïlle (“grate, grating”), from Latin crātīcula (“grating”), diminutive of crātis (“hurdle, wickerwork”). Doublet of grille. See: Latin Nouns '
crātīcula'.
Verbs referencing "gril"
English Nouns
grill, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
grill, Swedish Nouns
grill, German Nouns
Grill.
Translations