devoir
Meaning
Duty, business; something that one must do.
Synonyms
Hyphenated as
de‧voir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/dəˈvwɑː/
Etymology
From Middle English devoir, borrowed from Middle French devoir, from Old French deveir, from Latin dēbēre (“to owe; ought, must”).
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