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navette

/nəˈvɛt/

navette noun: a shuttle bus in France.

Noun

navette (plural navettes)

  1. A shuttle bus in France.
    • To catch the Roissybus from Terminal 1, take the navette from door 22 (line 2)[…]2009, Kiratiana Freelon, Kiratiana's Travel Guide to Black Paris, page 45
    • To address this, we explore the case of the navettes, informal vans that operate in the unlikely and unfriendly formal transport landscape of Brussels.2020, Wojciech Kębłowski, Moving in informal circles in the global North: An inquiry into the navettes in Brussels
  2. A kind of grape that grows in summer.
    • The summer Navette is less cultivated than the Coleseed, being less prolific, the seeds being much smaller.1831, George Don, A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants
  3. (obsolete) Rapeseed
  4. A lenticular piece of jewelry.

Forms of navette

pluralnavettes

Origin of navette

From French navette. By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -ette.

Words that rhyme with navette

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about navette

What does navette mean?
Navette means a shuttle bus in France.
What part of speech is navette?
Navette is a noun.
How do you pronounce navette?
Navette is pronounced /nəˈvɛt/.
What is the plural of navette?
The plural of navette is navettes.

Words near navette in the dictionary

  1. Naveses
  2. Navesink
  3. Navesinks
  4. naveta
  5. navetas
  6. navette
  7. navettes
  8. navew
  9. navews
  10. Navi Mumbai
  11. Navia

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