French word

meunier

Pronunciation

IPA/mønje/

Meaning

  • masculine nounmiller

Example

Le meunier travaille au moulin.

The miller works at the mill.

Illustration for meunier (miller)

More examples

La famille du meunier habite à côté du moulin.

The miller's family lives next to the mill.

Core concept

A miller guiding grain between the turning stones of a watermill.

Similar words

boulanger: A skilled worker who bakes bread mainly from flour.
farine: A powder made by grinding grains.
moulin: A facility or building where grain is ground into flour.
agriculteur: A person who grows crops as part of agricultural work.

Definition in French

Personne qui moud les céréales dans un moulin pour produire de la farine.

Word origin

French meunier comes through Old French from Latin molinarius, meaning related to a mill, from mola, a millstone.

Usage tips

  • Meunier is masculine; its feminine form is meunière, with the usual articles un and le for the masculine noun.

Other meanings

  • miller's thumbnoun

Related words

  • meunièrefemale millernoun

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