chute

Meaning

Noun

1. fall
2. fall, drop (e.g. in price)
3. fall, collapse, downfall
4. waterfall
5. punch line (conclusion of a joke or a story; the last words that bring the comic effect)
6. final part of an ensemble or a shape

Verb

1. inflection of chuter:
2. inflection of chuter:

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃyt/

Etymology

From a merger of Old French cheüe, chue (from Vulgar Latin *cadūta) and cheoite (from Vulgar Latin cadecta), both feminine past participles of cheoir, whence modern choir (compare chu).

Sentences

Un canot d’écorce l’attendait à cent pas de la chute .

A bark canoe was waiting for him a hundred steps from the fall.