ouvert

Borrowed from French ouvert. Doublet of overt.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /uːˈvɛː/

ouvert (plural ouverts)

1. (ballet) A position in which the feet are apart, or a movement which brings them apart.
2. (fashion) An open-crotch undergarment.

From Middle French ouvert, from Old French overt, from Vulgar Latin *opertus, from Latin apertus.

• IPA^(key): /u.vɛʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁ
• Homophone: ouverts

ouvert (feminine singular ouverte, masculine plural ouverts, feminine plural ouvertes)

1. open

• fermé

• ouverture
• ouvrir
• couvert

ouvert m (feminine singular ouverte, masculine plural ouverts, feminine plural ouvertes)

1. past participle of ouvrir

• Antillean Creole: ouvè
• English: ouvert
• Haitian Creole: ouvè
• Louisiana Creole French: ouvèr
• Seychellois Creole: ouver

• “ouvert” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• trouve, trouvé, vouter, voûter

From Old French overt.

ouvert

1. past participle of ouvrir

• French: ouvert

ouvert m

1. Alternative form of ouvaert