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canicule

/ˈkanɪkjuːl/

canicule noun: synonym of dog days.

Noun

canicule (plural canicules)

  1. (archaic) Synonym of dog days.
    • In fact, the incompatibility of your nature, and that of the Spanish climate, must ever be present to me, who, during the vivifying heats of the late very bearable canicule, in your French château[…]1846, Nathaniel Armstrong Wells, The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain
    Synonyms:
    dog days

Synonyms of canicule

Forms of canicule

pluralcanicules

Origin of canicule

Borrowed from French canicule, from Latin. Doublet of chenille.

Questions about canicule

What does canicule mean?
Canicule means synonym of dog days.
What part of speech is canicule?
Canicule is a noun.
How do you pronounce canicule?
Canicule is pronounced /ˈkanɪkjuːl/.
What is the plural of canicule?
The plural of canicule is canicules.

Words near canicule in the dictionary

  1. canicular cycle
  2. canicular cycles
  3. canicular days
  4. canicular period
  5. canicular periods
  6. canicule
  7. canid
  8. canidate
  9. canidates
  10. canids
  11. caniform

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Adapted from Wiktionary: canicule (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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