FRENCHMAN

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• FRENCHMAN (noun)
  The noun FRENCHMAN has 1 sense:

1. a person of French nationality

  Familiarity information: FRENCHMAN used as a noun is very rare.

• FRENCHMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person of French nationality

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

French person; Frenchman; Frenchwoman

Hypernyms ("Frenchman" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Frenchman"):

frog; Gaul (a person of French descent)

Parisian (a native or resident of Paris)

Breton (a native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language))

Savoyard (a resident of Savoy)

Angevin; Angevine (a resident of Anjou)

Norman (an inhabitant of Normandy)

Holonyms ("Frenchman" is a member of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

“On my word, sire,” replied Chandos, with the utmost surprise upon his face, “it is my opinion that he is a Frenchman.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Look at that young Frenchman who went up last week in a balloon.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The word “Frenchman” was hardly spoken without “rascal” or “scoundrel” slipping in before it.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Say, Joe, was his greeting to his old-time working-mate next morning, there's a Frenchman out on Twenty-eighth Street.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Final the captain, more red than ever, and in more tongues tell him that he doesn't want no Frenchmen—with bloom upon them and also with blood—in his ship—with blood on her also.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A stout Frenchman, who knew the Emperor, came to indulge his mania for dancing, and Lady de Jones, a British matron, adorned the scene with her little family of eight.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence—‘This account of you we have from all quarters received.’ A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, because the Swiss astronomer’s catalogue never achieved wider renown, Messier’s re-discovery of the Omega Nebula in 1764 led to its becoming Messier 17, the seventeenth object in the Frenchman’s popular compendium (eso0925).

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

Nay, friend, it is not the Frenchman's gold, but the Frenchman's blood that I would have.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Up we came to the big Frenchman, took her fire, and scraped the paint off her before we let drive.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)