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Webster 1913 Edition


Chalet


Cha-let′

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Noun.
[F.]
1.
A herdsman’s hut in the mountains of Switzerland.
Chalets
are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen.
Wordsworth.
2.
A summer cottage or country house in the Swiss mountains; any country house built in the style of the Swiss cottages.

Definition 2024


chalet

chalet

See also: châlet

English

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Noun

chalet (plural chalets)

  1. An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
    • 2013 January 1, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:
      Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.

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French

Etymology

From Franco-Provençal çhalè ‘herdsman’s hut in the mountains’, from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel ‘farmhouse’, from Late Latin casalis ‘house-like, house-related’, from Latin casa ‘house’.

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

  1. chalet

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowing from French chalet

Noun

chalet m (invariable)

  1. chalet

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Latin

Verb

chalet

  1. third-person singular present active subjunctive of chalō

Malay

Etymology

From English chalet, from Swiss French chalet, from Franco-Provençal çhalè, from Old Franco-Provençal chaslet, diminutive of chasel, from Late Latin casalis, from Latin casa.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃale/
  • Rhymes: -ale, -le, -e

Noun

chalet

  1. chalet (wooden house)

Spanish

chalet

Etymology

Borrowing from French chalet

Noun

chalet m (plural chalets)

  1. cottage, chalet

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