surveillant
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editsurveillant (comparative more surveillant, superlative most surveillant)
Noun
editsurveillant (plural surveillants)
- 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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
editPronunciation
editParticiple
editsurveillant
Noun
editsurveillant m (plural surveillants, feminine surveillante)
Further reading
edit- “surveillant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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