Polyglot Dictionary

scélérat

/selera/

le 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 Neutral

Forms

plural
scélérats

Meaning

  1. scoundrel, villain (literary/dated register)

N Category Person Concreteness Concrete Animacy Animate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Usage notes

Mot littéraire et vieilli pour un méchant — surtout rencontré aujourd'hui dans les romans policiers classiques et les contes, rarement à l'oral.

Practice

1 What does scélérat mean?

2 Fill the gap: Le ___ s'est enfui avant l'arrivée de la police.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches scélérat?

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