 | French | English  | |
 | magnifique {adj} | 6 beautiful [great day, weather etc.] | |
| rude {adj} [journée, combat] | 3 hard [day, fight etc.] [tough] | |
| convenu {adj} {past-p} [heure, jour etc.] | appointed [time, hour, day etc.] | |
| chaque jour {adv} | daily [day by day] | |
| de jour en jour {adv} | daily [day by day] | |
| tous les jours {adv} | daily [every day] | |
| météo. caniculaire {adj} [torride] [chaleur, jour, temps] | scorching [heat, day, weather] | |
| Verbs |
| poindre [littéraire] [aube, jour] | to break [dawn, day] | |
| commencer à faire jour | to dawn [of a day] | |
| Nouns |
| date {f} | 3 date [of letter, day of the week] | |
| dr. peine {f} de police | [penalty of one day to two months imprisonment] | |
| hist. calendes {m} | calends [first day of the month in the ancient Roman calendar] | |
| veille {f} [jour précédent] | eve [day before] | |
| jour {m} férié | holiday [one day] | |
| météo. jour {m} très chaud | scorcher [coll.] [very hot day] | |
| astron. terminateur {m} | terminator [dividing line between day and night] | |
| sociol. jour {m} de la Saint Valentin | Valentine's [coll. for: Valentine's Day] | |
| 2 Words: Others |
| Mangez bien, riez souvent, aimez beaucoup. [loc.] | Carpe diem. [seize the day] [idiom] | |
| 2 Words: Verbs |
| se fêter | to be celebrated [feast day, etc.] | |
| 2 Words: Nouns |
| cuis. plat {m} du jour | (today's) special [dish of the day] | |
| Fête {f} nationale <14 juillet> | Bastille Day [French National Day] | |
| jour {m} J | big day [e.g. wedding, 1st school day] | |
| garde {f} d'enfants | child care [Am.] [care of children by day-care center, babysitter etc.] | |
| cuis. fermeture {f} hebdomadaire | day off [closing day] | |
| fermeture {f} hebdomadaire | day's rest [closing day] | |
| first-foot {m} | first-foot [tradition in N. England and Scotland: first person to enter the home of a household on New Year's Day] | |
| carte {f} de vœux | greeting card [typically for New Year, Valentine's Day] | |
| géogr. hist. pol. Union {f} de Kalmar [1397–1523] [aussi : Union de Calmar] | Kalmar Union [1397–1523] [joining under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including much of present-day Finland), and Norway] | |
| week-end {m} prolongé | long weekend [three- or four-day weekend] | |
| géogr. hist. pol. Nouvelle-Irlande {f} | New Ireland [Crown colony of Great Britain twice established in modern-day Maine after British forces captured the area during the American Revolutionary Wars] | |
| hist. pol. Pragmatique Sanction {f} [1549] | Pragmatic Sanction [edict issued by Charles, Holy Roman Emperor, in 1549 reorganising the Seventeen Provinces of the present-day Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg into one indivisible territory] | |
| 3 Words: Others |
| jour après jour {adv} | day after day | |
| au fil des jours {adv} [loc.] | day after day | |
| jour après jour {adv} | day by day | |
| jour par jour {adv} | day by day | |
| au fil des jours {adv} [loc.] | day by day | |
| 3 Words: Verbs |
| cesser [activité] | to (pull) up stumps [Br.] [coll.] [to cease doing something, at least for the day] | |
| 3 Words: Nouns |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Auerstaedt [1806] | Battle of Auerstedt [1806] [in the two battles of Jena & Auerstedt, fought on the same day, Napoleon's army decisively defeated the Prussian Army under King Frederick William III] | |
| hist. mil. pol. bataille {f} d'Iéna [1806] | Battle of Jena [1806] [in the two battles of Jena & Auerstedt, fought on the same day, Napoleon's army decisively defeated the Prussian Army under King Frederick William III] | |
| fermeture {f} hebdomadaire | day of rest [closing day] | |
| quatre juillet {m} <4 juillet> [fête nationale américaine] | Fourth of July <4th of July> [US Independence Day] | |
| géogr. hist. pol. royaume {m} de Navarre | Kingdom of Navarre [Basque kingdom that occupied lands on either side of the western Pyrenees, alongside the Atlantic Ocean between present-day Spain and France between 824 and 1620] | |
| hist. mil. relig. siège {m} de Tripoli [1102 - 1109] | siege of Tripoli [1102 - 1109] [site of present day Tripoli in Lebanon, captured by the Crusaders] | |
| hist. pol. traités {m.pl} de Reichenbach [1813] | Treaties of Reichenbach [1813] [series of agreements signed in present-day Dzierżoniów between UK, Prussia, Russia, and Austria to establish a united coalition force against Napoleon I of France] | |
| hist. pol. traité {m} de Finkenstein [1807] | Treaty of Finckenstein [1807] [concluded between France and Persia (modern-day Iran) in the Finckenstein Palace (now Kamieniec, Poland) formalising the Franco-Persian alliance] | |
| géogr. hist. pol. traité {m} de Nöteborg [1323] | Treaty of Nöteborg [1323] [also: Treaty of Oreshek or Pähkinäsaari] [between Sweden and the Novgorod Republic regulating their border on the Karelian Isthmus and parts of modern-day Finland] | |
| 4 Words: Others |
| de jour en jour {adv} | from day to day | |
| au jour le jour {adv} [loc.] | from day to day [idiom] | |
| 4 Words: Nouns |
| journée {f} internationale dédiée à la mémoire des victimes de l'Holocauste [le 27 janvier] | International Holocaust Remembrance Day [short for: International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust] | |
| météo. journée {f} caniculaire | sizzler (of a day) [coll.] [very hot day] | |
| 5+ Words: Others |
| On en apprend tous les jours. [loc.] | Every day is a school day. [idiom] | |
| Unverified J'ai une heure de libre aujourd'hui. | I have an hour free today. [all other hours in my day are busy] | |
| le lendemain et le surlendemain {adv} | the next day and the day after that | |
| 5+ Words: Verbs |
| tirer à sa fin | to be coming to an end [of day, holidays] | |
| tirer à sa fin | to be drawing to an end [of day, holidays] | |
| fin. différer un paiement | to delay payment from day to day | |
| vivre à la petite semaine [loc.] | to live from day to day [idiom] | |
| sociol. vivre dans l'incertitude du lendemain [loc.] | to live from day to day [idiom] | |
| 5+ Words: Nouns |
| géogr. hist. pol. sérénissime république {f} de Venise [697 - 1797] | Most Serene Republic of Venice [also: Venetian Republic] [a sovereign maritime republic in parts of present-day northeastern Italy, which existed from 697 until 1797] | |
| Fiction (Literature and Film) |
| arts F Rue de Paris, temps de pluie [Gustave Caillebotte] | Paris Street; Rainy Day [also: Paris: A Rainy Day] | |
