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coteaux

coteaux is the plural of coteau.

Meaning of coteau

Noun

coteau (plural coteaus or coteaux)

  1. (Canada, US) A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys.
    • It happened when he was a tiny boy standing at the edge of a prairie coteau. From that place, he saw the buffalo trudging out of the horizon on one side of the world.2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 267
  2. (Canada, US) The side of a valley.

Origin of coteaux

Borrowed from French coteaux.

Questions about coteaux

What is coteaux the plural of?
Coteaux is the plural of coteau.

Words near coteaux in the dictionary

  1. coteaches
  2. coteaching
  3. coteau
  4. Coteau-du-Lac
  5. coteaus
  6. coteaux
  7. cotechini
  8. cotechino
  9. cotechinos
  10. cotectic
  11. coted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coteaux (page history and authors); coteau (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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