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Meaning of "tirailleur" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TIRAILLEUR

tirailleur  [tiʀajœ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TIRAILLEUR

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determiner
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Tirailleur is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TIRAILLEUR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

tirailleur

Tirailleur

Tirailleur literally means a shooting skirmisher in French from tir—shot. The term dates back to the Napoleonic period where it was used to designate light infantry trained to skirmish ahead of the main columns. Subsequently "tirailleurs" was used by the French Army as a designation for infantry recruited in the French colonial territories during the 19th and 20th centuries or for metropolitan units serving in a light infantry role.

Definition of tirailleur in the English dictionary

The definition of tirailleur in the dictionary is an African soldier in the French colonial army.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TIRAILLEUR

tirade
tirage
tiramisu
Tiran
Tirana
tirasse
tire
tired
tired and emotional
tired out
tiredly
tiredness
Tiree
tireless
tirelessly
tirelessness
tireling
Tiresias
tiresome
tiresomely

WORDS THAT END LIKE TIRAILLEUR

camoufleur
ciseleur
derailleur
Harfleur
jongleur
millefleur
mitrailleur
persifleur
petroleur
siffleur
tailleur

Synonyms and antonyms of tirailleur in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «tirailleur» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TIRAILLEUR

Find out the translation of tirailleur to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tirailleur from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tirailleur» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

tirailleur
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tirailleur
570 millions of speakers

English

tirailleur
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

tirailleur
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

tirailleur
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

tirailleur
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tirailleur
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ছুড়াত্তয়ালা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

tirailleur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tirailleur
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tirailleur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

tirailleur
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tirailleur
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tirailleur
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tirailleur
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

tirailleur
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तिरपाल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tirailleur
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fuciliere
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tirailleur
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

tirailleur
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tirailleur
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

tirailleur
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

scherpschutter
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tirailleur
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tirailleur
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tirailleur

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TIRAILLEUR»

The term «tirailleur» is regularly used and occupies the 99.221 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TIRAILLEUR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tirailleur

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TIRAILLEUR»

Discover the use of tirailleur in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tirailleur and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Races on Display: French Representations of Colonized ...
French trademarks during the Third Republic portrayed black men in two different military roles: the ancient African warrior and the tirailleur sénégalais, the West African infantryman created during the Second Empire.8 On the warrior labels, ...
Dana S. Hale, 2008
2
African Dress: Fashion, Agency, Performance
Treachery became a common motif in praise singers' tales about the demobilization of the tirailleur. In Seydou Camara's tale the “Balili of Faransekila,” the hero of the story is killed when he returns home from the war when his rivals capsize a ...
D. Soyini Madison, Karen Tranberg Hansen, 2013
3
The Tirailleur Elsewhere: Military Veterans in Colonial and ...
This dissertation analyzes the history of veterans of the French colonial military---former tirailleurs Senegalais ---in the West African nation and former French colony of Mali from the end of the First World War to 1968, when former ...
Gregory Mann, 2000
4
Race and War in France: Colonial Subjects in the French ...
For example, “Le tirailleur malade [le tirailleur qui est malade] est arrivé” (The sick tirailleur [the tirailleur who is sick] has arrived) became “Tirailleur y en a maladi y'a venir” (Tirailleur that there is sick is come). The expressions “Y'a bon” ( “There ...
Richard S. Fogarty, 2008
5
Native Sons: West African Veterans and France in the ...
147 Old uniforms associated those who wore them with the state and its power, and they set them apart from the masses: For most of them, the fact of having been a tirailleur—even without having taken part in the war and for many of them,  ...
Gregory Mann, 2006
6
A Treatise Upon the Duties of Light Troops
Of Flanking, or acting in Open Order, or en Tirailleur. WHEN a certain number of light infantry or light horse fights dispersed, it is called flanking skirmishing, or acting en tirailleur. This kind of fighting requires more training than any other, as the ...
Ehwald (von, Colonel.), 1803
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Africa in Europe: Studies in Transnational Practice in the ...
In this respect, the image is ambiguous - a fact that has not been remarked upon heretofore in standard art history texts.35 Porter's painting is rather curious given that, by definition, the body of the tirailleur is one enveloped in a uniform, ...
Eve Rosenhaft, Robbie John Macvicar Aitken, 2013
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Borderlines: Genders and Identities in War and Peace 1870-1930
Genders and Identities in War and Peace 1870-1930 Billie Melman. ble of having stories, their stories are unimaginable, they have no ”Permission to Narrate.”16 The tirailleur remained, so it would seem, inarticulate, eerily invoking the ...
Billie Melman, 2013
9
Colonial Culture in France since the Revolution
The company was created in 1912 by a pharmacist from Courbevoie, and would, some years later, become synonymous with the image of the senegalese tirailleur from the First World War. legend has it that in 1917, a wounded tirailleur was ...
Pascal Blanchard, Sandrine Lemaire, Nicolas Bancel, 2013
10
Ambivalent Desire: The Exotic Black Other in Jazz-age France
j| JsitsitSil tirailleur was a sympathetic rendering of a semicivilized warrior. The savage African warrior stereotype was much attenuated: the u Bonhomme's rifle was only hinted at, and his legendary coupe-coupe, A an African machete, was ...
Brett A. Berliner, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TIRAILLEUR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tirailleur is used in the context of the following news items.
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France : stèle en hommage aux tirailleurs sénégalais de la Grande …
Une stèle en hommage au 61e bataillon de tirailleurs sénégalais a été dévoilée samedi au château des Maretz à Merfy (Marne) où en mai 1918 une section de ... «Jeune Afrique, May 15»
2
Une borne en hommage aux tirailleurs sénégalais
La commune de Merfy a inauguré ce samedi 30 mai une borne commémorative pour honorer la mémoire du 61ème bataillon de tirailleurs sénégalais qui a ... «Francetv info, May 15»
3
Fin de la 2e Guerre mondiale (6/6): Jean, le tirailleur, raconte son …
Suite et fin de nos reportages consacrés à cette page importante de l'histoire. Aujourd'hui, Sébastien Rosenfeld et Michel Herinckx nous embarquent dans une ... «RTL info, May 15»
4
8 mai 1945: la mémoire oubliée des tirailleurs africains
Les programmes scolaires au Mali par exemple en parlent très peu : « Ils ne connaissent pas et d'ailleurs le tirailleur est perçu un peu dans l'opinion des jeunes ... «RFI, May 15»
5
«L'Afrique n'a pas été une simple spectatrice des guerres mondiales!»
Ses recherches portent sur la contribution déterminante des tirailleurs sénégalais à la victoire de l'armée française dans les deux Guerres mondiales. Entretien. «RFI, May 15»
6
Epinal : cérémonie du 1er Régiment de Tirailleurs
Mascotte qui a bien représenté le corps de Tirailleurs, avec 300 missions et 600 photos, ... Des Tirailleurs prêts à s'envoler pour leur mission de sécurisation en ... «Francetv info, Jan 15»
7
Centrafrique : gros plan sur le 1er Régiment de Tirailleurs d'Epinal
Depuis octobre, une centaine d'hommes du 1er Régiment de Tirailleurs d'Epinal sont déployés en Centrafrique. Leur rôle : assurer une mission de sécurisation ... «Francetv info, Dec 14»
8
Camp Thiaroye : là où sont tombés les tirailleurs sénégalais
Il y a de cela 70 ans, des tirailleurs sénégalais de retour de la 2e guerre mondiale, étaient regroupés dans un camp de transit à une quinzaine de kilomètres du ... «au-senegal.com, Dec 14»
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On les appelait les tirailleurs sénégalais
Il n'est jamais trop tard pour bien faire : les célébrations du centenaire de la première guerre mondiale et du soixante-dixième anniversaire du débarquement de ... «Monde Diplomatique, Nov 14»
10
L'ancien tirailleur indochinois enfin décoré
Ancien tirailleur parti d'Indochine en 1939, pour « faire la guerre en France », prisonnier de guerre, puis résistant au sein des FFI (Forces françaises de ... «Le Parisien, Aug 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Tirailleur [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/tirailleur>. Apr 2024 ».
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