Fils definition

fēs
Used to distinguish a son from his father when they have the same given name.
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Used after a proper name that is common to a father and his son to indicate that the son is being referred to rather than the father.
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(rare) The son referred to in the manner of the adjective above.
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A unit of currency equal to11000 of the dinar in several countries of the Middle East.
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A unit of currency equal to1100 of the dirham in the United Arab Emirates.
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Any of the monetary units of:
  • Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, and Kuwait, equal to11000 of a dinar.
  • The United Arab Emirates, equal to1100 of a dirham.
  • Yemen, equal to1100 of a rial.
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A son or a youth.

Alexandre Dumas fils.

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Origin of fils

  • Arabic fals, fils from Latin follis bellows, windbag, purse, piece of money bhel-2 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • French from Latin fīlius son dhē(i)- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French fils (“son”).

    From Wiktionary

Fils Sentence Examples

  • He engaged in a foolish and undignified struggle with Crebillon (not fils), a rival set up against him by Madame de Pompadour, but a dramatist who, in part of one play, Rhadamiste et Zenobie, has struck a note of tragedy in the grand Cornelian strain, which Voltaire could never hope to echo.

  • In 1785 appeared his Recherches theoriques et experimentales sur la force de torsion et sur l'elasticite des fils de metal, &c. This memoir contained a description of different forms of his torsion balance, an instrument used by him with great success for the experimental investigation of the distribution of electricity on surfaces and of the laws of electrical and magnetic action, of the mathematical theory of which he may also be regarded as the founder.

  • Its more important tributaries are the Enz, Eschach and Glatt (left), and the Fils, Rems, Kocher and Jagst (right).

  • As an author he is known by his L'Indo-Chine francaise (1904), and fils (1906).

  • Nos fils (1869), the last of the string of smaller books published during the author's life, is a tractate on education, written with ample knowledge of the facts and with all Michelet's usual sweep and range of view, if with visibly declining powers of expression.

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