French (noun)

the Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France

French, French people (noun)

the people of France

French, Daniel Chester French (adj)

United States sculptor who created the seated marble figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. (1850-1931)

French, Gallic (verb)

of or pertaining to France or the people of France

"French cooking"; "a Gallic shrug"

French (verb)

cut (e.g, beans) lengthwise in preparation for cooking

"French the potatoes"

French (Noun)

People of France, collectively.

French (Noun)

Vulgar language.

French (Verb)

To kiss (another person) while inserting one's tongue into the other person's mouth.

French (Verb)

To kiss in this manner.

French (Adjective)

Of or relating to France.

French (Adjective)

Of or relating to the people or culture of France.

French (Adjective)

Of or relating to the French language.

French (ProperNoun)

A Romance language spoken primarily in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, Valle d'Aosta and many former French colonies.

french (Verb)

To prepare food by cutting it into strips.

French

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the provinces of Quebec, Ontario and New Brunswick in Canada also in Haiti, the Acadiana region of the U.S. state of Louisiana, the northern parts of the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont in the New England region, and by various communities elsewhere. Other speakers of French, who often speak it as a second language, are distributed throughout many parts of the world, the largest numbers of whom reside in Francophone Africa. In Africa, French is most commonly spoken in Gabon, Mauritius, Algeria, Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire. French is estimated as having 110 million native speakers and 190 million more second language speakers. French is an Italic language descended from the spoken Latin language of the Roman Empire, as are languages such as Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, Lombard, Catalan, Sicilian and Sardinian. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in Belgium, which French has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Roman Gaul and by the Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian.