chansonnier

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French chansonnier.

Noun

chansonnier (plural chansonniers)

1. A book which contains a collection of chansons.
2. A singer of chansons.
   • 2009 April 6, Anthony Tommasini, “Is That in Your Job Description, Maestro?”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     Not only that, H K Gruber, the Austrian composer, conductor and self-described chansonnier who was to perform the vocal solo of his own work, “Frankenstein!!,” the major work on the program, never made it.

Translations

book

• Catalan: cançoner (ca) m
• Finnish: laulukirja (fi)
• French: chansonnier (fr) m
• Galician: cancioneiro m
• Italian: canzoniere (it) m

• Occitan: cançonièr (oc) m
• Portuguese: cancioneiro (pt) m
• Russian: пе́сенник (ru) m (pésennik)
• Spanish: cancionero m

singer of chansons

• Armenian: շանսոնյե (hy) (šansonye)
• Catalan: cançoner (ca) m
• Czech: šansoniér m
• French: chansonnier (fr) m, chansonnière (fr) f
• German: Chansonnier m

• Italian: canzoniere (it) m
• Portuguese: cancioneiro (pt) m
• Russian: шансонье́ (ru) m (šansonʹjé)
• Spanish: cancionero m

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French chansonnier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌʃɑn.zɔˈnjeː/
• Hyphenation: chan‧son‧ni‧er
• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

chansonnier m (plural chansonniers)

1. A chansonnier (singer of chansons).
2. A chansonnier (songbook).

Related terms

• chanson

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French

Etymology

chanson +‎ -ier

Noun

chansonnier m (plural chansonniers)

1. songbook, chansonnier

Noun

chansonnier m (plural chansonniers, feminine chansonnière)

1. singer, chansonnier

Descendants

• → Dutch: chansonnier
• → English: chansonnier
• → Russian: шансонье́ (šansonʹjé) (see there for further descendants)

Further reading

• “chansonnier” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• encharnions