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FRENCHMAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person of French nationality
Synonyms:
French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Frenchman" is a kind of...):
European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Frenchman"):
frog; Gaul (a person of French descent)
Parisian (a native or resident of Paris)
Breton (a native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language))
Savoyard (a resident of Savoy)
Angevin; Angevine (a resident of Anjou)
Norman (an inhabitant of Normandy)
Holonyms ("Frenchman" is a member of...):
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
Context examples:
Because I question Jefferson and the unscientific Frenchmen who informed his mind, does not make me a socialist.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Cast away at the very bottom of the table was the Professor, shouting answers to the questions of a very inquisitive, deaf old gentleman on one side, and talking philosophy with a Frenchman on the other.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Tell me, comrade, is it sooth that we shall have another fling at these Frenchmen?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
At the time I never questioned that it had spurted from some stricken Frenchman or Spaniard, and I shrank from him in terror when he laid his horny hand upon my head.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was evident that his mind was not in working order yet, and his ideas needed clarifying, for often in the middle of a plaintive strain, he would find himself humming a dancing tune that vividly recalled the Christmas ball at Nice, especially the stout Frenchman, and put an effectual stop to tragic composition for the time being.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Pardieu! a true Frenchman's words may well be bitter, for bitter is his lot and bitter his thoughts as he rides through his thrice unhappy country.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The long succession of British victories which had finally made the French take to their ports and resign the struggle in despair had given all of us the idea that for some reason a Briton on the water must, in the nature of things, always have the best of it against a Frenchman.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I have not observed it,” said the Frenchman carelessly.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“There are Frenchmen among them, my fair lord,” remarked Black Simon.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But it is not nature that an English-born man should love a Scot or a Frenchman.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
