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Translate rook from English to French

Summary

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rook:
- freux
Wiktionary:
- rook → corbeau freux, freux, tour
- rook → rouler
- rook → corbeau freux, corneille, freux, tour

English

Detailed Translations for rook from English to French

rook:

rook [the ~] nom

the rook
le freux
- freux [le ~] nom

Translation Matrix for rook:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
freux	rook
-	Corvus frugilegus; castle

Related Words for "rook":

rooks

Synonyms for "rook":

castle; chessman; chess piece
Corvus frugilegus; corvine bird
victimize; swindle; goldbrick; nobble; diddle; bunco; defraud; scam; mulct; gyp; gip; hornswoggle; short-change; con; cheat; rip off; chisel

Related Definitions for "rook":

common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow¹
(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard¹

Wiktionary Translations for rook:

rook

noun

bird
- rook → corbeau freux; freux
chesspiece
- rook → tour

verb

cheat, swindle
- rook → rouler

rook

noun

ornithol|nocat Espèce d’oiseau passereau d’Eurasie, corbeau au plumage noir d’un éclat métallique ou brun-violet et à bec effilé et non garni de plumes.
- corbeau freux → rook
Pièce du jeu d’échecs
- tour → castle; rook

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• rook	→ corbeau freux	↔ roek — Corvus frugilegus, kraaiachtige vogel
• rook	→ corneille	↔ Krähe — ein Rabenvogel mit starkem Schnabel (mittelgroße Arten der Gattung Corvus)
• rook	→ corbeau freux; freux	↔ Saatkrähe — ein Singvogel der Familie der Rabenvogel
• rook	→ tour	↔ Turm — Spielfigur beim Schach

¹WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University