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The French word for chestnut is
châtaigne





chestnut

Plural

The plural of châtaigne is châtaignes.

French Definition


chestnut
     1. n. Châtaigne, marron.
     2. n. (Botanique) (Par ellipse) Châtaignier.
     3. n. (Couleur) Marron foncé.
     4. adj. Marron, d'une couleur brun foncé.

Translations for chestnut and their definitions

châtaigne ©
     1. n-f. (sweet) chestnut


châtaigner


marronnier ©
     1. n-m. chestnut tree
     2. n-m. horse-chestnut tree
     3. n-m. (newsmedia, figurative) old chestnut (A news item which, like chestnut fruits, tends to come back every year at the same time. Implies that the news is a fill-in, that might as well have been written


Marron
     1. Proper noun. surname, French, eq=Marron
     2. n-m. horse-chestnut
     3. n-m. chestnut
     4. n-m. chestnut brown
     5. n-m. A token used as a control of the presence of someone at his post
     6. n-m. (pyrotechnics) firecracker (on a rocket)
     7. n-m. (informal) punch (with the fist)
     8. n-m. (informal) head
     9. adj. (France) brown
     10. adj. that has become wild again (used of a slave or animal who has returned to a free or wild state)
     11. adj. illicit, crooked (of professions)
           magie marronne - hedge magic
     12. n-m. maroon (a slave or animal who has run away to live free)


châtain
     1. adj. (hair) chestnut-coloured, brown
     2. adj. having brown hair, brunette
     3. n-m. chestnut brown


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