🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

ruisseau

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ruisseau

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

"Un petit ruisseau traverse la forêt."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small, narrow river.

    "We crossed the clear stream by stepping on the stones."
  2. 2

    A continuous flow of data, liquid, or people.

    "The website offers a live stream of the concert."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'strēam', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch 'stroom' and German 'Strom', ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning 'to flow'. Historically used to describe any flowing body of water, it has expanded in modern times to denote the continuous flow of data or digital media.

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