faute de mieux
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
Borrowing from French.
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /fəʊt də ˈmjəː/, /fot də mjø/
Adverb [edit]
faute de mieux (comparative more faute de mieux, superlative most faute de mieux)
- For want of something better; for lack of an alternative.
- 1998, “homosexuality”, in Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (editors), The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilisation, Oxford (2004), ISBN 9780198609582, page 353:
- Among the explanations commonly advanced are: (1) Greek males were driven to seek romance and sexual gratification with other males, faute de mieux, by the seclusion and enforced intellectual impoverishment of *women; (2) […]
- 1998, “homosexuality”, in Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (editors), The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilisation, Oxford (2004), ISBN 9780198609582, page 353:
Translations [edit]
for want of something better
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French [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /fot.də.mjø/
Adverb [edit]
- for want of something better, faute de mieux
