boulevard

See also: Boulevard

English

Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bulwark; more at bole, work.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈbuː.ləˌvɑːd/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈbʊləvɑɹd/

• Audio (CA)

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Noun

boulevard (plural boulevards)

1. A broad, well-paved and landscaped thoroughfare.

   We live on Sunset Boulevard.

2. The landscaping on the sides of a boulevard or other thoroughfare.

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): blvd., blvd, bd., bd, bl

Related terms

• boulevardier
• bulwark (doublet)

Translations

broad, landscaped thoroughfare

• Basque: bulebar
• Catalan: bulevard m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 林蔭大道 (zh), 林荫大道 (zh) (línyīndàdào), 大道 (zh) (dàdào)

• Czech: bulvár (cs) m
• Danish: boulevard (da) c
• Dutch: hoofdweg (nl) m, boulevard (nl) m
• Esperanto: bulvardo, aleo (eo)
• Estonian: puiestee
• Finnish: bulevardi (fi), puistokatu (fi)
• French: boulevard (fr) m
• Georgian: ბულვარი (bulvari), პროსპექტი (ṗrosṗekṭi), გამზირი (ka) (gamziri)
• German: Boulevard (de) m, Prachtstraße (de) f
• Greek: λεωφόρος (el) f (leofóros)
• Hebrew: שְׂדֵרָה‎ (he) f (sderá)
• Hindi: मार्ग (hi) m (mārg)
• Hungarian: körút (hu)
• Ido: bulvardo (io)
• Irish: búlbhard m

• Italian: viale (it) m
• Japanese: 大通り (おおどおり, ōdōri), ブールバード (būrubādo)
• Kazakh: желекжол (jelekjol)
• Khmer: មហាវិថី (mɔhaa vi’tʰǝy)
• Latvian: bulvāris m
• Macedonian: булева́р m (bulevár), бул. m (bul.)
• Malay: boulevard
• Norwegian: bulevard
• Persian: بولوار‎ (fa) (bulvâr)
• Polish: bulwar (pl) m, aleja (pl) f
• Portuguese: alameda (pt) f (Brazil), bulevar (pt) m
• Romanian: bulevard (ro) n
• Russian: бульва́р (ru) m (bulʹvár), проспе́кт (ru) m (prospékt)
• Slovak: bulvár (sk) m
• Spanish: bulevar (es) m
• Swedish: bulevard
• Tagalog: bulebar
• Turkish: bulvar (tr)
• Vietnamese: đại lộ (vi), đường lớn

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Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevard, borrowed from Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”). Doublet of bolværk.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [b̥uləˈʋɑˀd̥]

Noun

boulevard

1. boulevard

Declension

Declension of boulevard

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	boulevard	boulevarden	boulevarder	boulevarderne
genitive	boulevards	boulevardens	boulevarders	boulevardernes

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevard, from Middle French bolevard, from Middle Dutch bolwerc (modern Dutch bolwerk).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbu.ləˈvaːr/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: bou‧le‧vard

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards, diminutive boulevardje n)

1. boulevard

Derived terms

• meubelboulevard
• woonboulevard

Descendants

• → Indonesian: bulevar

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French

Etymology

From Middle French boulevard, bollevart, boulevars, bolevers, bollewerc (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from Middle High German bolewerc, bolwerc (modern German Bollwerk) or Middle Dutch bolwerk (“bulwark, bastion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bul.vaʁ/

• audio

  (file)

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. causeway
2. boulevard

Derived terms

• (abbreviation): (Europe): bd, Bd, bld, brd, bvd; (Québec): boul., boul
• Grands Boulevards

Descendants

• → Spanish: bulevar
• → Turkish: bulvar

Further reading

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

References

Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French boulevard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bu.leˈvar/, (careful style) /bulˈvar/
• Rhymes: -ar

Noun

boulevard m

1. boulevard
2. (archaic) embankment

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Norman

Etymology

From Old French bollevart (“promenade, avenue, rampart”), from German Bollwerk or Middle Dutch.

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. (Jersey) bulwark

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Spanish

Etymology

From French boulevard. Doublet of baluarte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /buleˈbaɾd/, [bu.leˈβ̞aɾð̞]

Noun

boulevard m (plural boulevards)

1. boulevard