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dire

Pronunciation: /diʁ/

“dire” is a French word. Its 18 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to say, to tell (to express through speech)
  2. to tell (to order, to advise)
  3. to say, to tell (to set out in writing)
  4. to say (often used in the sense of responding to an objection)
  5. to say, to tell of (to celebrate, to sing, to narrate)
  6. to say, to tell (to deliver, to recite)
  7. to seem like, to look like
  8. to mean, to say, to state (to denote, to signify, to indicate, to mark)
  9. to say, to tell (used when speaking of actions, of gestures, of looks, etc., that demonstrate someone's thinking)
  10. to call out (to denounce)
  11. to say (to express what one thinks, what one feels, what one sees)
  12. to say (to signify, to be used for a word, a phrase, a sentence)
  13. to say (to claim, to assure that one has a certain quality)
  14. to say to oneself, to think to oneself, to tell oneself, to think (to make this or that reflection, to have this or that thought, to make this or that reasoning within oneself)
  15. to be of interest to, to interest [with à ‘someone’], to be up for, to be interested, to like to, to feel like (to be okay with, to be tempted by)
  16. to sound familiar

noun

  1. saying (that which is said)
  2. belief, opinion

In French

  1. Exprimer par la parole.
  2. Ordonner, conseiller.
  3. Énoncer par écrit.
  4. S’emploie souvent dans le sens de répondre à une objection.
  5. Célébrer, chanter, raconter.
  6. Débiter; réciter.
  7. Juger; croire; penser.
  8. Dénoter, signifier, indiquer, marquer.
  9. S’emploie en parlant des actions, des gestes, des regards, etc., qui manifestent la pensée de quelqu’un.
  10. Dénoncer.
  11. Exprimer ce que l'on pense, ce que l'on ressent, ce que l'on voit.
  12. Chose dite (attribuée à une personne par un adjectif possessif ou un complément de nom).

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French dire, from Old French dire, from Latin dīcō, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱeti (“to show, point out”).

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