Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

garçonnière

/ɡɑɹsənˈjɛɚ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: gar-çon-nière
IPA: /ɡɑɹsənˈjɛɚ/

10

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bachelor pad.

Example Sentences

"He did not care for money, except to spend it – that was the first: the second was that he did not own a garçonnière, and appeared to be faithful to Justine – an unheard of state of affairs."
"She [...] fell grievously in love there with a married man, who after one summer of parvenu passion dispensed to her in his Camping Ford garçonnière preferred to give her up rather than run the risk of endangering his social situation [...]."

Etymology

From French garçonnière.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: garçonnière

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ɡɑɹsənˈjɛɚ/
British English: /ɡɑːsənˈjɛə/

Inflected Forms

garçonnières (plural)

Rhymes With

to a hair a day after the fair zero air grand le pierre 'clare district of clare -ware khmer- sentiment du fer pied-à-terre cornwallis square père

Questions

How do you pronounce garçonnière?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɡɑɹsənˈjɛɚ/.
What does garçonnière mean?: A bachelor pad.
Where does garçonnière come from?: It is traced to French.

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