French Conversation · Level 149
30 words
French word
déserteur
Pronunciation
IPA/dezɛʁtœʁ/
Meaning
- masculine noundeserter
Example
Le déserteur a fui le front hier soir.
The deserter fled the front last night.
More examples
Les voisins ont signalé un déserteur.
The neighbors reported a deserter.
Core concept
A person who breaks away from an assigned service and disappears instead of returning to it.
Common phrases
être traité de déserteur
be called a deserter
un déserteur de la marine
a deserter from the navy
un déserteur en fuite
a deserter on the run
Similar words
traître: Someone who betrays the trust of companions or the state.
fugueur: A young person or child who runs away from home and goes missing.
fugitif: Someone who hides to escape arrest or accountability.
Definition in French
Personne qui abandonne illégalement son poste, surtout un soldat qui fuit le front ou le service militaire.
Word origin
French déserteur developed as an agent noun from déserter, whose history leads back to Latin deserere, "to leave or abandon."
Usage tips
- Déserteur normally appears with the masculine article un, as in un déserteur; its feminine counterpart is une déserteuse.
Related words
- déserterdesertverb
- désertiondesertionnoun
- désertédesertedadjective