Polyglot Dictionary

bélier

/be.lje/

le noun B1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Common Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
les béliers

Meaning

  1. ram

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

mémoire vive

bélier means "ram," the animal; mémoire vive means "RAM," computer memory — a coincidental sound-alike, not a real synonym, but easy to confuse in English.

Similar in other languages

Spanish

carnero

carnero is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "ram."

Portuguese

carneiro

carneiro is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "ram."

Practice

1 What does bélier mean?

2 Fill the gap: Le ___ protège son troupeau de brebis.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches bélier?

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