envergure
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From en- + vergue (“yard”) + -ure.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]envergure f (plural envergures)
- (of an aircraft) wingspan
- (figuratively) scale; magnitude
- une offensive d’envergure ― a large-scale offensive operation
Descendants
[edit]- Esperanto: enverguro
Further reading
[edit]- “envergure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.