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# définition — French to English

How French *définition* is translated into English in open, checked parallel texts: 1 translation with example sentences.

The Elamur Dictionary has no French section yet; the English translations below link to their meanings where it has them.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: définition (101 868), définitions (29 944). By style: everyday 25 · literary 2 · parliamentary 6 101 · legal and administrative 23 160 · UN documents 102 524.

## definition

Used about 111 712 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 23 · literary ≈ 2 · parliamentary ≈ 5 021 · legal and administrative ≈ 21 230 · UN documents ≈ 85 437). Forms: defined, definition, definitions. Meaning: [definition in the Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/definition/).

- Quelle est la **définition** ?
  What is the **definition**?
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by carlosalberto and carlosalberto · checked, community translation · [\#11541644](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11541644) [\#11541649](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/11541649))

- La loi de tous, c'est la liberté, qui finit où commence la liberté d'autrui, selon l'admirable **définition** de Robespierre.
  The law of all is liberty, which ends where the liberty of others begins, according to Robespierre’s admirable **definition**.
  ([Project Gutenberg books (Verne, Hugo, Maupassant and their translators)](https://www.gutenberg.org/) · Project Gutenberg, public domain · checked, professional translation · hugo les miserables, row 21617)

- C'est toute fois une **définition** très étroite.
  But that is a very narrow **definition**.
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1909417)

- I. OBJECTIFS ET **DÉFINITIONS**
  I. OBJECTIVE AND **DEFINITIONS**
  ([DGT-TM v2021](https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/language-technology-resources/dgt-translation-memory_en) · Source: European Commission, DGT-TM (Steinberger et al. 2012), re-used under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU; the Commission keeps ownership of the data · checked, professional translation · segment 2844161)

- **DÉFINITION** DE L &apos; ENFANT
  **Definition** of the Child
  ([United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0](https://conferences.unite.un.org/UNCorpus) · Source: United Nations, United Nations Parallel Corpus v1.0 (Ziemski, Junczys-Dowmunt and Pouliquen 2016) · checked, professional translation · segment 13522873)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- C'est la version haute **définition**.
  This is the HD version.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by sacredceltic and Spamster · checked, community translation · [\#1418836](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1418836) [\#1436328](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1436328))

- De toutes les **définitions** de l'homme, la plus mauvaise me paraît celle qui en fait un animal raisonnable.
  Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Scott and Scott · checked, community translation · [\#879674](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/879674) [\#833222](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/833222))

- Nous devons essayer de parvenir à un accord commun sur la **définition** d'un projet de moindre importance.
  We must try to have a common opinion on what is 'non-significant' .
  ([Europarl v8](https://www.statmt.org/europarl/) · Source: European Parliament proceedings, Europarl v8 (Koehn 2005) via OPUS (Tiedemann 2012) · checked, professional translation · segment 1864830)

## Grammar

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