vivant

Borrowed from French vivant (“living”).

• IPA^(key): /vɪˈvænt/

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• Rhymes: -ænt

vivant

1. (card games, obsolete) In mort, bridge, and similar games, the partner of dummy.

• “vivant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Present participle of vivre, probably a calque of Latin vīventem.

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vivant (feminine vivante, masculine plural vivants, feminine plural vivantes)

1. alive

   Synonym: en vie

   Antonym: mort

   Je croyais qu’il était mort, mais il est encore vivant. ― I thought he was dead, but he is still alive.

2. living

   Antonym: mort

   une langue vivante ― a living language

   un fossile vivant ― a living fossil

   un tableau vivant ― a tableau vivant (posed scene resembling a painting)

vivant

1. present participle of vivre

vivant m (plural vivants, feminine vivante)

1. living person

   un bon vivant ― a person who enjoys the good things in life

2. lifetime

   du vivant de ― during the lifetime of

3. all living things

   le domaine du vivant ― The land of the living.

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

vīvant

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of vīvō

vivant (feminine singular vivante, masculine plural vivans, feminine plural vivantes)

1. present participle of vivre
2. (may be preceded by en, invariable) gerund of vivre

vivant m (feminine singular vivante, masculine plural vivans, feminine plural vivantes)

1. alive

Present participle of vivre, probably a calque of Latin vīvēns, vīventem.

vivant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular vivant or vivante)

1. living; alive

vivant

1. present participle of vivre

• French: vivant

Borrowed from French vivant.

vivant m or n (feminine singular vivantă, masculine plural vivanți, feminine and neuter plural vivante)

1. lively