Polyglot Dictionary

symbolisme

/sɛ̃bɔlism/

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
symbolismes

Meaning

  1. symbolism, the use of symbols to represent ideas (also a 19th-century literary movement)

N Category Thing Concreteness Concrete Animacy Inanimate Countability Countable Scope Individual

Usage notes

Both a general literary device (using symbols to represent ideas) and the name of the specific 19th-century literary movement Baudelaire belonged to.

Practice

1 What does symbolisme mean?

2 Fill the gap: Le ___ est très présent dans la poésie de Baudelaire.

3 Which fingerprint chart matches symbolisme?

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