🇫🇷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."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

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, sharing roots with Old High German 'stroum' and Greek 'rhein' (to flow). Historically used to denote any continuous flow of liquid, the term has evolved in modern times to describe both natural waterways and continuous digital data transmission.

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