carnet

From French carnet (“notebook”), from Middle French quernet (“group of four sheets”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑː(ɹ).neɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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carnet (plural carnets)

1. A ticket book, a collection of tickets in the form of a booklet often sold at a discount to single tickets.

   Rather than buy each ticket individually, you can buy a carnet of ten tickets for a lower price.

2. (law) A customs document that allows the temporary duty-free importation of a particular article
   • 2003, Jim Hudgens et al., The Rough Guide to West Africa‎, →ISBN, page 20:

     If you plan to sell your car, of course, a carnet is the last thing you need: if the vehicle isn't correctly stamped in and out of each country you'll lose your deposit.

3. An admission pass.

• carnet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:Carnet (pass permit) on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Canter, Cretan, canter, centra, creant, nectar, recant, tanrec, trance

Borrowed from French carnet.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kərˈnɛt]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kərˈnət]
• IPA^(key): (Valencian) [kaɾˈnet]

carnet m (plural carnets)

1. identification card

   carnet de conduir ― driving license

• “carnet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024

From a diminutive of Old French quaern, quaer. See cahier.

• IPA^(key): /kaʁ.nɛ/

• Audio

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• Homophone: carnets

carnet m (plural carnets)

1. booklet, notebook

• → Catalan: carnet
• → English: carnet
• → Haitian Creole: kanè
• → Portuguese: carnê
• → Polish: karnet
• → Spanish: carné

• “carnet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• centra, cernât, créant, encrât, tancer, trance

Borrowed from French carnet.

carnet n (plural carnete)

1. notebook

• IPA^(key): /kaɾˈnet/ [kaɾˈnet̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification: car‧net

carnet m (plural carnets)

1. Alternative form of carné

• “carnet”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014