parole
Meaning
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- speech, language (the faculty of using spoken language to communicate or express thought, the usage of this faculty, and the words articulated through its use)
- word(s) utterance, expression (an orally articulated unit of discourse)
- voice, spoken word
- lyrics, words (of a song)
- promise, word
- floor (the right to speak, as, for example, in a legislative assembly)
Concepts
what people say
speech production
loud talk
written vow
prolation
actor’s line
linguistic communication
-shaped
Synonyms
émission sonore
mot d’honneur
haute voix
phrasedomain:lang
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/pa.ʁɔl/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French parole, from Old French parole, inherited from Vulgar Latin *paraula, from Late Latin, from Latin parabola (“comparison; later, speech”), from Ancient Greek παραβολή (parabolḗ). Doublet of parabole and palabre.
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Sentences
La parole est à Monsieur Jean-Frédéric Poisson , pour soutenir l’amendement numéro 🔢 cent 100 soixante-dix-huit 78 .
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78
Mr Jean-Frédéric Poisson has the floor to support amendment number one hundred and seventy-eight.
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