Polyglot Dictionary

liesse

/ljɛs/

la noun C1

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Academic Domain General Tone Positive

Meaning

  1. jubilation, joyful celebration

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Usage notes

Almost always used in the fixed phrase "en liesse" (in a state of collective joy) -- a literary word for a crowd's shared euphoria, e.g. after a victory or during a festival.

Practice

1 What does liesse mean?

2 Fill the gap: La ville entière était en ___ pendant les fêtes de fin d'année.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches liesse?

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