POINTE-NOIRE

Meaning of POINTE-NOIRE in English

Pronunciation: ˌ pwant- ' nwär

Function: geographical name

city & port SW Republic of the Congo on the Atlantic pop 576,206; formerly capital of Middle Congo

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary. Merriam Webster - Энциклопедический словарь английского языка. 2012

POINTE-NOIRE — town (commune), principal port of Congo (Brazzaville). It lies at the Atlantic coastal terminus of the Congo-Ocean Railway, 95 miles …
Britannica English vocabulary
POINTE-NOIRE — geographical name city & port SW Republic of the Congo on the Atlantic population 576,206; formerly capital of Middle Congo
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
POINTE-NOIRE — City (pop., 1992 est.: 576,206) and port, southwestern Republic of the Congo. It was the capital (1950–58) of the Middle …
Английский словарь Британика
POINTE-NOIRE — Fr. /pwaonnt nwannrdd"/ , n. a seaport in the S Republic of Congo. 141,700.
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
POINTE-NOIRE — geographical name city & port SW Republic of the Congo on the Atlantic population 576,206; formerly capital of Middle Congo
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
POINTE-NOIRE — City (pop., 1992 est.: 576,206) and port, southwestern Republic of the Congo. It was the capital (195058) of the Middle …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
POINTE-NOIRE — г. Пуэнт-Нуар
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
POINTE-NOIRE — г. Пуэнт-Нуар
Англо-Русский географический словарь
POINTE — noun Etymology: French ~ (du pied), literally, tiptoe Date: 1846 a ballet position in which the body is balanced on …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
POINTE — ˈpwaⁿt, ˈpwant noun ( -s ) Etymology: French, literally, point (sharp end) — more at point 1. ballet : the …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
POINTE — Fr. /pwaonnt/ , n. , pl. pointes Fr. /pwaonnt/ . Ballet. 1. the tip of the toe. 2. a position …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
POINTE — n. (French) point, sharp end; ballet position in which dancers stand on the tip of the toes
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
NOIRE — adj. black (French)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
POINTE — noun Etymology: French pointe ( du pied ), literally, tiptoe Date: 1846 : a ballet position in which the body …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
POINTE — [ pwa~t \] ■ noun ( plural pronounced same) Ballet the tips of the toes. ↘(also ~ work ) dancing …
Concise Oxford English vocab
POINTE — [pointe] n [F pointe (du pied), lit., tiptoe] (1846): a ballet position in which the body is balanced on the …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
POINTE — pointe BrE AmE pwænt —French [ pwæ̃t ]
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
POINTE — / pwæ͂t; NAmE / noun [ U ] (also pointes / pwæ͂t/ points [ pl. ]) the hard tops of …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
POINTE — pointe BrE AmE , pointes /pwænt $ pwɑːnt/ noun [uncountable] if ↑ ballet dancers are on pointe, they are dancing …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
POINTE — noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Elaine Fifield did not always keep her feet fully pointed nor knees stretched, even when …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
POINTE — noun
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
POINTE — noun Pointe is used before these nouns: ↑ shoe
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
POINTE — пуант (в балете) - to dance on * танцевать на пуантах
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
POINTE — n пуант ( в балете ) to dance on pointe - танцевать на пуантах
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
POINTE — (0) пуэнт
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
POINTE — n пуант ( в балете ) to dance on ~ - танцевать на пуантах
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь - Апресян, Медникова
POINTE — n пуант ( в балете ) to dance on pointe - танцевать на пуантах
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
POINTE — n. пуант
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
NOIRE — adj. черный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
POINTE — n. пуант
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
NOIRE — adj. черный
English-Russian-dictionary - Bed release
POINTE — пуант (в балете) - to dance on * танцевать на пуантах
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
POINTE — пуант
Англо-Русский словарь
POINTE-NOIRE AERODROME — Airport Name : Pointe-Noire Aerodrome Airport Location : Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo IATA Code : PNR ICAO Code : …
Airport Code English Dictionary
POINTE-À-PITRE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT — Airport Name : Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport Airport Location : Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France IATA Code : PTP ICAO Code : TFFR
Airport Code English Dictionary
BÊTE NOIRE — noun (plural bêtes noires) Etymology: French, literally, black beast Date: 1828 a person or thing strongly detested or avoided ; …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
BÊTE NOIRE — noun also bête noir ˌbetnəˈwär, betˈnw-, -āt-, -wȧ(r ( plural bêtes noires also bêtes noirs -är(z), -ȧz, -ȧ(r) Etymology: French …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DEMI-POINTE — /dem'ee poynt"/ ; Fr. /deuh mee pwaonnt"/ , n. , pl. demi-pointes /-poynts"/ ; Fr. /-pwaonnt"/ . Ballet. a position …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE'S BÊTE NOIRE — a person or thing that one particularly dislikes. → bête noire
Concise Oxford English vocab
BETE NOIRE — [bete noire] n, pl betes noires [F, lit., black beast] (1844): a person or thing strongly detested or avoided: bugbear
Merriam-Webster English vocab
POINTE--PITRE — principal town and arrondissement of the French overseas dpartement of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean Sea. The town lies on the …
Britannica English vocabulary
GROSSE POINTE — name applied to five exclusive northeastern residential communities of Detroit, Wayne county, southeastern Michigan, U.S. On the southwestern shore of …
Britannica English vocabulary
CONGO RIVER — The Congo River basin and its drainage network. also called Zaire River, river in west-central Africa. With a length of …
Britannica English vocabulary
BETE NOIRE — bete noire, bête noire BrE AmE ˌbeɪt ˈnwɑː ˌbet- AmE ˌbet nə ˈwɑːr ˌbeɪt- —French [ bɛt nwaːʁ ] ▷ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
BÊTE NOIRE — bête noire /ˌbet ˈnwɑː $ -ˈnwɑːr/ BrE AmE noun [singular] [ Date: 1800-1900 ; Language: French ; Origin: 'black beast' …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BÊTE NOIRE — see bete noire
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BETE NOIRE — also bête noire If you refer to someone or something as your bete noire , you mean that you have …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
BETE NOIRE — Note: in AM and sometimes in BRIT, use 'bete noire' If you refer to someone or something as your ~, …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
TFFR — Airport Name : Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport Airport Location : Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, France IATA Code : PTP ICAO Code : TFFR
Airport Code English Dictionary
PNR — Airport Name : Pointe-Noire Aerodrome Airport Location : Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo IATA Code : PNR ICAO Code : …
Airport Code English Dictionary
FCPP — Airport Name : Pointe-Noire Aerodrome Airport Location : Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo IATA Code : PNR ICAO Code : …
Airport Code English Dictionary
BLACK BEAST — noun Date: 1862 bete noire
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MAURITIUS — officially Republic of Mauritius Island country, lying east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The central independent island state of …
Английский словарь Британика
BRAZZAVILLE — River port (pop., 1992 est.: 937,579), capital of Republic of the Congo. Lying on the north bank of the Congo …
Английский словарь Британика
BANGUI — City (pop., 1995: 553,000), capital of the Central African Republic. A major port on the Ubangi River , it is …
Английский словарь Британика
BÊTE NOIR — noun see bête noire
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BLACK BEAST — noun Etymology: translation of French bête noire : bête noire
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BALLET POSITION — any of the five positions of the feet fundamental to all classical ballet. The term may also denote the various …
Britannica English vocabulary
NKAYI — formerly Jacob, town (commune), southwestern Congo. It lies west of the capital, Brazzaville, and northeast of the port of Pointe-Noire, …
Britannica English vocabulary
LOUBOMO — formerly Dolisie, commune (town), southern Congo (Brazzaville), and an important transport centre for western Congo (Kinshasa) and southern Gabon. It …
Britannica English vocabulary
AFRICAN ARTS — the visual, performing, and literary arts of native Africa, particularly of sub-Saharan, or black, Africa. The arts include the media …
Britannica English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BÊTE — noire [noun] [C] [disapproving] - a person or thing that you particularly dislike or that annoys youMy particular bête noire …
Cambridge English vocab

Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary

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