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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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