🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

fil conducteur

Pronunciation / Transliteration: fee kon-duk-ter

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Common thread/ˈkɒm.ən θred/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"Le fil conducteur de cette discussion est la durabilité."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An identifying feature, theme, or characteristic that is shared by multiple different people, ideas, or situations.

    "Despite their different backgrounds, the common thread among the group members was a passion for environmental conservation."
  2. 2

    A unifying element that connects disparate parts of a complex narrative, argument, or design.

    "The search for truth is the common thread running through all of her novels."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the adjective common (from Old French comun and Latin communis) and the noun thread (from Old English þrǣd). The figurative idiom originates from the imagery of a continuous strand running through a fabric, extended metaphorically by the 19th century to describe a recurring theme or unifying element in various subjects.

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