attaché

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See also: attache and Attaché

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché (literally “attached”).

Pronunciation

Noun

attaché (plural attachés)

  1. A diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role.
    Little did anyone suspect that the military attaché was one of the world's craftiest spies.
    • 1915, Commerce Reports, volume 2, number 115, page 784:
      One of the commercial attachés of the Department of Commerce in South America transmits the name and address of an engineer who desires to receive full information relative to an automotor for an interurban railway.

Derived terms

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɑ.tɑˈʃeː/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: at‧ta‧che
  • Rhymes: -eː

Noun

attaché m (plural attachés, diminutive attacheetje n, feminine attachee)

  1. attaché

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: atase

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)

  1. attached, attached to, bound, committed, connected, devoted, fastened, fixed, joined-up, secured, strapped, tethered, tie-on, tied, wired
    Synonyms: fixé (“fixed”), lié (“linked”)

Derived terms

Noun

attaché m (plural attachés, feminine attachée)

  1. attaché, attache (employment of civil servant in several administrations)
    Un attaché à la Bibliothèque nationale. ― An attaché to the National Library.
    Un attaché au cabinet d’un ministre. ― An attaché to the office of a minister.
    • 1937 March, Georges Simenon, chapter II, in Le Blanc à lunettes [The Bespectacled White Man], Paris: Éditions Gallimard:
      Mon mari est attaché militaire à l’ambassade anglaise d’Ankara.
      My husband is military attaché to the British Embassy in Ankara.

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Participle

attaché (feminine attachée, masculine plural attachés, feminine plural attachées)

  1. past participle of attacher

Descendants

Further reading

Anagrams

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from French attaché.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /a.taˈʂɛ/
  • Audio 1:(file)
  • Audio 2:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Syllabification: a‧tta‧ché

Noun

attaché m pers (indeclinable)

  1. (diplomacy, politics) attaché (diplomatic officer, usually one who plays a specific role)
nouns

Further reading

  • attaché in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • attaché in Polish dictionaries at PWN
  • attaché in PWN's encyclopedia

Swedish

Etymology

From French attaché.

Pronunciation

Noun

attaché c

  1. attaché

Declension

Declension of attaché
nominative genitive
singular indefinite attaché attachés
definite attachén attachéns
plural indefinite attachéer attachéers
definite attachéerna attachéernas
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