courant

English

Etymology 1

Alternative form of courante.

Noun

courant (plural courants)

  1. A piece of music in triple time.
  2. A lively dance; a coranto.

Etymology 2

From French courant (“running”).

Noun

courant (plural courants)

  1. A circulating gazette of news; a newspaper.

Adjective

courant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry) Represented as running.
    a classical lion courant

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for courant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

From French courant.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑnt
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  • IPA(key): /kuˈrɑnt/

Adjective

courant (comparative couranter, superlative courantst)

  1. current, prevalent, standard
    En hier hebben we ons meest courante model.
    And this is our best-selling model.
    Optellen en vermenigvuldigen zijn de meest courante rekenbewerkingen.
    Addition and multiplication are the most prevalent mathematical operations.

Inflection

Inflection of courant
uninflected courant
inflected courante
comparative couranter
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial courantcouranterhet courantst
het courantste
indefinite m./f. sing. courantecouranterecourantste
n. sing. courantcourantercourantste
plural courantecouranterecourantste
definite courantecouranterecourantste
partitive courantscouranters—

Noun

courant n (plural couranten, diminutive courantje n)

  1. currency

courant f (plural couranten, diminutive courantje n)

  1. (archaic) Alternative form of krant; newspaper

Synonyms

References

  • W. Martin, G. A. J. Tops et al., Groot Woordenboek Nederlands–Engels, Van Dale Lexicografie, Utrecht/Antwerpen, 1998 [Dutch–English dictionary]

French

Etymology

Present participle of courir; in Old French corant. Corresponds to Latin currens, currentem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ku.ʁɑ̃/
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  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃

Verb

courant

  1. present participle of courir

Noun

courant m (plural courants)

  1. current (of water, electricity, thought etc)
    courant électrique
    electric current

Adjective

courant (feminine singular courante, masculine plural courants, feminine plural courantes)

  1. current, present
  2. (language skills) fluent
  3. common

Derived terms

Further reading

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