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French
Proper noun
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French is a Romance language.
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The French are the people of France.
The French and the English have often been at war.
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A French is a bad word; cursing.
Pardon my French.
French
Adjective
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Something that is related to France.
We have crossed the French border with Italy.
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Something that is related to the French people.
She was born in Paris, so she should know about French customs.
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Something that is related to the French language.
"Sauter" is a French verb for "Jump".
frigate
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noun
a United States warship larger than a destroyer and smaller than a cruiser
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noun
a medium size square-rigged warship of the 18th and 19th centuries
shoal
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noun
(= shallow)
a stretch of shallow water
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noun
a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
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noun
(= school)
a large group of fish
a school of small glittering fish swam by
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verb
(= shallow)
become shallow
the lake shallowed over time
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verb
(= shallow)
make shallow
The silt shallowed the canal