🇫🇷French Source WordCode: FR

chèvre

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shèvr

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Goat/ɡoʊt/
nounCEFR A2 (Elementary)Top #3500 frequency
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🇫🇷 Example Sentence in French:

"La chèvre broute de l'herbe fraîche dans la prairie."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A hardy domesticated ruminant mammal that has horns and backward-curving horns, kept for its milk, meat, and wool.

    "The farmer led the goat back to the enclosure before the storm began."
  2. 2

    An acronym standing for 'Greatest Of All Time', used to describe a supremely talented athlete or achiever in a specific field.

    "Many sports analysts consider Michael Jordan to be the undisputed goat of basketball."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old English gāt, of Germanic origin, sharing roots with Dutch geit and German Geiss. Ultimately tracing back to Proto-Indo-European *gʰaido- meaning 'young goat', the term has historically denoted both the hardy livestock animal and, in modern youth culture slang, an acronym for 'Greatest Of All Time'.

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