Polyglot Dictionary

siècle

/sjɛkl/

le noun A2

le (masc.) la (fem.)

Underline = a spelling pattern that usually signals that gender.

N Register Neutral Era Current Frequency Core Domain General Tone Neutral

Forms

plural
les siècles

Meaning

  1. century

    • Ce château date du seizième siècle.

      This castle dates from the sixteenth century.

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Similar words

Similar in other languages

German

Jahrhundert

Jahrhundert is the German word for the same thing — both mean "century."

Spanish

siglo

siglo is the Spanish word for the same thing — both mean "century."

Portuguese

século

século is the Portuguese word for the same thing — both mean "century."

Practice

1 What does siècle mean?

2 Fill the gap: Ce château date du seizième ___.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches siècle?

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