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compère en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from French compère.

Meanings

  1. (UK, alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of compere.
    alt of compere
    • It was Moscow’s best known compère, George Bengalsky. 1967, Michael Glenny, chapter 12, in The Master and Margarita, translation of Мастер и Маргарита by Mikhail Bulgakov, published 1938, →ISBN, page 142:
    • Suddenly compères were sipping coffee in the middle of their shows, … 2004-2005, Paul Ginsborg, Silvio Berlusconi, page 48
    • The fact that compères routinely wait no more and no less than eight seconds before interrupting means that they decide at just that point that an audience has been clapping long enough, [...] 1984, Max Atkinson, Our Masters' Voices, page 27:

Forms

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compères Number=Plur lexicographic

compère en · VERB

Etymology

Borrowed from French compère.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of compere.
    alt of compere
    • Fashion elder compères his own celebration of designs revived from his archive by design director Sam Cotton[.] 2026 January 17, Lauren Cochrane, “Paul Smith reworks his past at Milan menswear salon show”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Forms

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compèring Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
compères Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
compèred Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
compèred Tense=Past lexicographic