surveillant
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French
Adjective
surveillant (comparative more surveillant, superlative most surveillant)
Noun
surveillant (plural surveillants)
- One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “surveillant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
French
Pronunciation
Verb
surveillant
Noun
surveillant m (plural surveillants, feminine surveillante)
Further reading
- “surveillant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.