rentrée
French
FWOTD – 1 September 2017
Pronunciation
Noun
rentrée f (plural rentrées)
- return (the act of returning)
- (education, administration) the return to school or work after a vacation (usually the summer break); start of the school year
- Dans 5 jours, c’est la rentrée. ― It's back to school in 5 days.
- 2015, William Edmiston, Annie Dumenil, La France contemporaine, Cengage Learning, →ISBN:
- Pour les jeunes, c’est la rentrée scolaire: beaucoup de parents accompagnent leurs jeunes enfants à l’école le jour de la rentrée des classes, et les patrons sont encouragés à leur accorder cette possibilité.
- For children, it is the start of the new school year: many parents accompany their young children to school on the first day back, and bosses are encouraged to allow them to do so.
Coordinate terms
- (start of the school year): relâche
Derived terms
- rentrée des classes
- rentrée scolaire
- rentrée littéraire
- rentrée politique
Descendants
- Portuguese: rentrée
Further reading
- “rentrée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Anagrams
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈtɾe/ [hɐ̃ˈtɾe]
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈtɾe/ [χɐ̃ˈtɾe]
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ʁɐ̃ˈtɾe/
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