surveillant

English

Etymology

French

Adjective

surveillant (comparative more surveillant, superlative most surveillant)

1. overseeing; watchful

Noun

surveillant (plural surveillants)

1. One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.

   Jason aspires to be one of the 45 orientation program surveillants.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “surveillant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /syʁ.vɛ.jɑ̃/ ~ /syʁ.ve.jɑ̃/

Participle

surveillant

1. present participle of surveiller

Noun

surveillant m (plural surveillants, feminine surveillante)

1. supervisor

   Synonym: (school slang) pion

2. warden, warder
3. monitor, prefect

Further reading

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