Frances vs French - What's the difference?
frances | french |
, feminine form of Francis.
* c.1590 William Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost : Act III, Scene I:
* 1883 , Heart and Science , Chatto and Windus, page 227:
* 1961 , Owls Do Cry , ISBN 072510029X, page 97:
* 1967 , Eric A. Nordlinger, The Working-class Tories , page 236:
* 1998 , Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore (ISBN 0791437108), page 2:
* 2013 , Making Sense of the Secular: Critical Perspectives (ISBN 1136277218), page 48:
A Romance language spoken primarily in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, Valle d'Aosta and many former French colonies.
* 1997 , Albert Valdman, French and Creole in Louisiana , page 29
* 2004 , Jack Flam, Matisse and Picasso: The Story of Their Rivalry and Friendship , page 18
(surname)
People of France, collectively.
* 2002 , Jeremy Thornton, The French and Indian War , page 14
(informal) Vulgar language.
Of or relating to France.
Of or relating to the people or culture of France.
Of or relating to the .
To kiss (another person) while inserting one’s tongue into the other person's mouth.
* 1988 , Wanda Coleman, A War of Eyes and other stories , page 151
To kiss in this manner.
* 1995 , Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence , page 87
As a proper noun frances
is (male given name).As a verb french is
to prepare food by cutting it into strips.frances
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) Franceise, feminine form of Franceis, from .Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Armado . Sirrah Costard, I will enfranchise thee.
- Costard''. O! marry me to one Frances : I smell some ''l'envoy , some goose, in this.
- "My name is Frances'. Don't call me Fanny!" "Why not?" "Because it's too absurd to be endured! What does the mere sound of Fanny suggest? A flirting dancing creature - plump and fair, and playful and pretty! - - - Call me ' Frances - a man's name, with only the difference between an i and an e. No sentiment in it, hard, like me."
- My other sisters had interesting names. There was Francie, that was Frances , and though she wore slacks and my father seemed angry with her, I thought she was some relation to Saint Francis, who, I believed, kept animals in his pocket and took them out and licked them, the way Francie licked a blackball or acid drop, for pure love.
Etymology 2
Proper noun
(head)- The malaise of French politics has commonly been interpreted as a product of a deep-seated conflict between the ‘two Frances ’.
- Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances by placing them in sequence: "diverse France gave way over time as modern centralized France gathered force."
- Was it the end of the long conflict between the two Frances ? Yes and no.
french
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Almost three quarters of the population 65 and older reported speaking French .
- Although he would spend the rest of his life in France, Picasso never mastered the language, and during those early years he was especially self-conscious about how bad his French was.
See also
* (fr) * Language listNoun
- The French and the English have often been at war.
- On the way, scouts reported that some French were heading toward them across the ice.
- Pardon my French .
Usage notes
When used to refer collectively to people of France, the word French is preceded by the definite article or some other determiner.Derived terms
* pardon my FrenchAdjective
(en adjective)- the French border with Italy
- French customs
- French verbs
Derived terms
* French bean, french bean * French berry * French braid * French bread * French-Canadian * French casement * French chalk * French corner * French cowslip * French curl * French curve * French-cut * French defence, French defense * French dip * French door * French dressing, french dressing * French Equatorial Africa * French fact * French fake * French fits * French fries, french fries * French grey * French grip * French Guiana * French Guinea * French harp * French honeysuckle * French horn * French India * French Indochina * French kiss * French knickers * French knot * French lavender * French letter * French lilac * French loaf * French lock * French Louisiana * French maid * Frenchman * French Morocco * French mulberry * French mullet * French mustard * French onion soup * French pancake * French paradox * French pie * French plait * French polish * French Polynesia * French pox * French purple * French Quarter * French red * French Republican Calendar, French Revolutionary Calendar * French rice * French Riviera * French roast * French roll * French roof * French rose * French rye * French sash * French seam * French Somaliland * French sorrel * French Southern and Antarctic Lands * French spacing * French spinach * French stick * French-style * French Sudan * French tickler * French toast, french toast * French Togoland * French trumpet * French tub * * French twist * French vanilla * French West Africa * French window, french window * French wire * Frenchwoman * take French leaveVerb
(es)- Tom frenched her full in the mouth.
- Even before I thought about what I was doing we Frenched and kissed with tongues.