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foule.

crowd

5 characters2 syllables approx.Français language

Meaning & usage

noun/ful/

  1. crowd

    feminine
    Les psychologues sociaux ont développé plusieurs théories afin d'expliquer la façon dont la psychologie d'une foule diffère et interagit avec celle des individus en son sein.

  2. the thronging of a crowd

    feminine

  3. a great number, multitude, mass; host

    feminine
Where this word comes from

Inherited from Middle French foule (“group of men, people collectively”), alteration (due to Middle French foule (“act of treading”)) of Old French foulc (“people, multitude, crowd, troop”), from Early Medieval Latin fulcus, from Frankish *folc, *fulc (“crowd, multitude, people”), from Proto-Germanic *fulką (“collection or class of people, multitude; host of warriors”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”). Cognate with Old High German folc (“people collectively, nation”), Old English folc (“common people, troop, multitude”). More at folk. For the loss of c after l, compare Old French mareschal, seneschal, etc.

noun/ful/

  1. the act or process of treading or milling

    feminine

  2. oppression, vexation

    feminine
Where this word comes from

From Middle French foule (“the act of milling clothes or hats”) and fouler (“to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat”), from Old French foler (“to crush, act wickedly”), from Latin fullō (“to trample, to full”). More at full.

verb/ful/

  1. inflection of fouler: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive

    first-person · form-of · indicative · present · singular · subjunctive · third-person

  2. inflection of fouler: second-person singular imperative

    form-of · imperative · second-person · singular
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