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animateur

animateur noun: one who promotes particular activity, especially one of a cultural or artistic nature.

Noun

animateur (plural animateurs)

  1. One who promotes particular activity, especially one of a cultural or artistic nature.
    • As an animateur you seek out a social circle to which to belong, whether or not it is entirely of your own making.1989, Ronnie Lessem, Global Management Principles, Prentice Hall, →ISBN, page 612
    • If an animateur is seeking to change their psychological point of view, this will mean re-organizing their defence system as part of the process of transformation.1999, Steve Mitchell, “Reflections on Dramatherapy as Initiation through Ritual Theatre”, in Ann Cattanach, editor, Process in the Arts Therapies, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 30

Forms of animateur

pluralanimateurs

Origin of animateur

Borrowed from French animateur.

Questions about animateur

What does animateur mean?
Animateur means one who promotes particular activity, especially one of a cultural or artistic nature.
What part of speech is animateur?
Animateur is a noun.
What is the plural of animateur?
The plural of animateur is animateurs.

Words near animateur in the dictionary

  1. animater
  2. animaters
  3. animates
  4. animatest
  5. animateth
  6. animateur
  7. animateurs
  8. animatic
  9. animatics
  10. animating
  11. animatingly

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