🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

Cadre

Pronunciation / Transliteration: kadr

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Frame/freɪm/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #850 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Elle a accroché le tableau dans un beau cadre."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A rigid structure that surrounds or encloses something such as a picture or a window.

    "She hung the painting in a beautiful wooden frame."
As verb
  1. 1

    To construct or put together a structure.

    "They plan to frame the new house this summer."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'framian' meaning to profit, avail, or prepare, originating from the Proto-Germanic root 'fram' meaning forward. Over centuries, the meaning shifted from 'to construct or direct' to the physical structure surrounding objects like pictures or doors.

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