attaché
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French attaché (literally “attached”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈtæʃeɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌætæˈʃeɪ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
Noun
editattaché (plural attachés)
- A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.
- Little did anyone suspect that the military attaché was one of the world's craftiest spies.
- 1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:
- One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editdiplomatic officer
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Dutch
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French attaché.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editattaché m (plural attachés, diminutive attacheetje n, feminine attachee)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Indonesian: atase
French
editPronunciation
editAdjective
editattaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)
- attached, attached to, bound, committed, connected, devoted, fastened, fixed, joined-up, secured, strapped, tethered, tie-on, tied, wired
Derived terms
editNoun
editattaché m (plural attachés, feminine attachée)
- attaché, attache (employment of civil servant in several administrations)
- Un attaché à la Bibliothèque nationale. ― An attaché to the National Library.
- Un attaché au cabinet d’un ministre. ― An attaché to the office of a minister.
- 1937 March, Georges Simenon, chapter II, in Le Blanc à lunettes [The Bespectacled White Man], Paris: Éditions Gallimard:
- Mon mari est attaché militaire à l’ambassade anglaise d’Ankara.
- My husband is military attaché to the British Embassy in Ankara.
Derived terms
editParticiple
editattaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “attaché”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
editPolish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from French attaché.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editattaché m pers (indeclinable)
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editnouns
Further reading
editSwedish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- Rhymes: -eː
Noun
editattaché c
Declension
editDeclension of attaché | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | attaché | attachén | attachéer | attachéerna |
Genitive | attachés | attachéns | attachéers | attachéernas |
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