donnée

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French donnée.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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donnée (plural données)

  1. A given; in a literary work, that which is assumed as to characters, situation, etc., as a basis for the plot or story.
    • 1884, Henry James, The Art of Fiction:
      We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, what the French call his donnée; our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
    • 1911, George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature, page 86:
      There is also some similarity between the general subject of both, which is that favourite romance donnée of the heir kept out of his own.
    • 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
      The donnée is from Boccaccio's Decameron, where a party of Florentine gentry flee to the countryside to escape the Black Death.

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French

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɔ.ne/
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Participle

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donnée f sg

  1. feminine singular of donné

Noun

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donnée f (plural données)

  1. (chiefly in the plural) datum (item of data)

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