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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French abonné, from abonner (“subscribe”).
Pronunciation
Noun
abonné (plural abonnés)
- A subscriber; a season ticket holder.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abonné”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
abonné (feminine abonnée, masculine plural abonnés, feminine plural abonnées)
- regularly affected by; plagued or dogged with
Noun
abonné m (plural abonnés, feminine abonnée)
- subscriber, follower (e.g. on a social network)
- (masculine only) a household for the purpose of utility delivery
- Des centaines d’abonnés sont encore sans électricité. ― Hundreds of households remain without electricity.
- season ticket holder
Derived terms
Descendants
Participle
abonné (feminine abonnée, masculine plural abonnés, feminine plural abonnées)
- past participle of abonner
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