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numéralnom proprecharacternomadjectifverbenomadjectifnom proprenomadjectifnom proprecourant dans les dialogues

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An unknown quantity or unknown value.

numéral

  1. 1

    An unknown quantity or unknown value.

    Let X represent the forecast traffic flow in 20 years’ time.

Étymologie

Introduced by René Descartes in the context of mathematical notation, but has since widened to other contexts.

nom propre

  1. 1

    A placeholder for an unknown, suppressed or hypothetical name.

    The woman known until now as Witness X has been unmasked after a court ruling.

    Suppose that Mr and Mrs X have been married for many years.

  2. 2

    A surname, used by those who have had their identity or heritage, including their proper ancestral names, erased or forgotten.

    Malcolm X

  3. 3

    An online social media network, formerly known as Twitter.

    Two senior USAid security officials were suspended on Sunday for blocking Doge officials from a restricted area, a day after the agency’s website went offline, and Musk posted to X that USAid was “beyond repair” and needed to be shut down.

character

  1. 1

    The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script.

nom

  1. 1

    Any mark that looks like that letter, such as a mark made by a person who cannot read or write in lieu of a signature.

  2. 2

    The spot behind the goal.

adjectif

  1. 1

    Intersex or non-binary (in passports and identification documents).

    So last summer, when the Massachusetts State Legislature became one of the first in the nation to consider a bill to add an “X” option for nonbinary genders to the “M” and “F” on the state driver’s license, El, 17, was less surprised than some at the maneuver that effectively killed it.

verbe

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    Variante de exAlternative spelling of ex (“to delete; to cross out”).

    I Xed the ballot for our Congressman last election just because he seemed […]

nom

  1. 1

    argotEcstasy, a particular street drug.

    You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub'. Look, mami, I got the X if you into takin' drugs.

    Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.

    I'm a love druggie falling for these drug junkies. Come n call on me besides these X parties. It's fucking hard on my body.

Étymologie

Presumably by abbreviation of the pronunciation of ecstasy.

adjectif

  1. 1

    vieilliSuitable only for those aged sixteen or (later) eighteen years and over.

  2. 2

    Obscene; adult; pornographic; XXX.

    If you go to an X movie you do so knowingly, as does everyone else in the audience. Or if the same thing comes up on TV you can switch over, or, if you wish, enjoy it in relative privacy.

nom propre

  1. 1

    familierChrist

Étymologie

From Christ by abbreviation, orthographic borrowing from Ancient Greek Χ (Kh, letter chi), from Χριστός (Khristós, “Christ”).

nom

  1. 1

    Cross, crossing.

    Kennington via Charing X

Étymologie

From cross, due to the X symbol being a cross saltire.

adjectif

  1. 1

    Variante de extremefamilierAbbreviation of extreme.

nom propre

  1. 1

    The X Window System, a windowing system for bitmap displays commonly used in Unix-like systems.

Étymologie

Named after its predecessor, the W Window System; X follows W in the Latin alphabet.

Formes

pluriel
Xs, X's, Xes
comparatif
more X
superlatif
most X
passé
Xed
participe passé
Xed
participe présent
Xing
3ᵉ personne du singulier
Xs
Les pages voisinesL'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.

Contenu lexical issu du Wiktionary, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrée d'origine · Version des données 2026-08-23

Rang parmi les mots du corpus OpenSubtitles 2018 — des sous-titres de films et de séries, donc de la langue parlée et non écrite (CC BY-SA 3.0).