Summary
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- pun:
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Wiktionary:
- pun → calembour, jeu de mots
- pun → jeu de mots, calembour
English
Detailed Translations for puns from English to French
pun:
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the pun (play upon words; equivoke; word-play; double entendre; jeu de mots)
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the pun (fun)
Translation Matrix for pun:
| Noun | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| calembour | double entendre; equivoke; jeu de mots; play upon words; pun; word-play | |
| drôlerie | fun; pun | amusingness; burlesqueness; comedy; drollery; farcicalness; fun; humor; humour; mischievousness; prank; trick; waggishness |
| jeu de mots | double entendre; equivoke; jeu de mots; play upon words; pun; word-play | |
| trait d'esprit | fun; pun | banter; fun; gag; humor; humour; jest; joke; little present; little something; pleasantry; prank; present; quip; witticism; witty remark |
| équivoque | double entendre; equivoke; jeu de mots; play upon words; pun; word-play | ambiguity; ribaldry; scurviness |
| - | paronomasia; punning; wordplay | |
| Other | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| - | crack jokes; joke | |
| Modifier | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| équivoque | ambiguous; binary; bipartite; dimerous; double; dual; equivocal; explainable in different ways; jokes with a double meaning; polysemic; suggestive; two-jointed; twofold; uncertain |
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Wiktionary Translations for pun:
pun
Cross Translation:
noun
pun
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joke or type of wordplay
- pun → calembour; jeu de mots
noun
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jeu de mots fonder sur l’homonymie et la polysémie.
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manipulation plaisante des mots fondée sur la ressemblance des mots.
Cross Translation:
| From | To | Via |
|---|---|---|
| • pun | → jeu de mots; calembour | ↔ Wortspiel — witziges Spiel mit Worten, z. B. mit deren Mehrdeutigkeit |