accoucheur | (noun) a physician specializing in obstetrics | Synonyms: obstetrician |
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amateur | (adjective) engaged in as a pastime | Synonyms: recreational, unpaid |
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(adjective) lacking professional skill or expertise | Synonyms: amateurish, inexpert, unskilled |
(noun) someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime | - |
(noun) an athlete who does not play for pay | - |
arbitrageur | (noun) someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) | Synonyms: arb, arbitrager |
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auteur | (noun) a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works | - |
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bonheur | (noun) (French) happiness and good humor | - |
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carillonneur | (noun) a musician who plays a carillon | - |
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chauffeur | (noun) a person paid to drive a privately owned car | - |
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(verb) drive someone in a vehicle | Synonyms: drive around |
coiffeur | (noun) a man hairdresser | - |
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connoisseur | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: cognoscente |
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danseur | (noun) a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina | Synonyms: danseur noble |
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entrepreneur | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: enterpriser |
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frotteur | (noun) someone who masturbates by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) | - |
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grandeur | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandness, magnificence, splendor, splendour |
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(noun) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct | Synonyms: magnanimousness, nobility, nobleness |
hauteur | (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, high-handedness, lordliness |
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jongleur | (noun) a singer of folk songs | Synonyms: folk singer, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour |
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liqueur | (noun) strong highly flavored sweet liquor usually drunk after a meal | Synonyms: cordial |
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litterateur | (noun) a writer of literary works | Synonyms: essayist |
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longueur | (noun) a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) | - |
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masseur | (noun) a male massager | - |
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mompreneur | (noun) an entrepreneur and a mother | - |
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poseur | (noun) a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not | Synonyms: poser |
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provocateur | (noun) a secret agent who incites suspected persons to commit illegal acts | Synonyms: agent provocateur |
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raconteur | (noun) a person skilled in telling anecdotes | Synonyms: anecdotist |
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rapporteur | (noun) a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings | - |
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restaurateur | (noun) the proprietor of a restaurant | Synonyms: restauranter |
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saboteur | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: diversionist, wrecker |
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(noun) a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader | Synonyms: fifth columnist |
seigneur | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seignior |
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voyeur | (noun) a viewer who enjoys seeing the sex acts or sex organs of others | Synonyms: peeper, Peeping Tom |
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