concours
English
Etymology
From French concours. Doublet of concourse.
Noun
concours
- A competitive examination, especially in medicine.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin concursus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.kuʁ/
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Noun
concours m (invariable)
- competition; contest; competitive examination
- concours de beauté ― beauty contest
- (somewhat archaic) concourse, gathering, assemblage, assembly; combination, consolidation, union
- grand concours de peuple ― great concourse of people; great crowd of people
- (somewhat archaic) concurrence; cooperation; participation
- 1804, “Code civil des Français [Civil Code of the French]”, in Académie de Strasbourg[1], Académie de Strasbourg:
- La femme...ne peut donner...à titre gratuit...sans le concours du mari dans l'acte...
- The wife...cannot make a gift...gratuitously...without the participation of the husband in the act...
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Descendants
Verb
concours
- inflection of concourir:
- first/second-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- “concours”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012