Fils meaning

fēs
Used to distinguish a son from his father when they have the same given name.
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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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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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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

  • Broca, La Telegraphie sans fils (Paris, 1899); A.

  • Memoires du duc de Normandie, fils de Louis XVI., ecrits et publies par lui-meme (Paris, 1831), compiled, according to Querard, by E.

  • Masson, Napoleon chez lui (2 vols., Paris, 1893-), * Napoleon et les femmes (3 vols., Paris, 18 931902), Napoleon et son fils (Paris, 1904); M.

  • of Marie de Medici and Louis XIII.), sometimes attributed to Mezeray, published at Amsterdam in 1730 and, under the title Histoire de la regence de reine Marie de Medicis, femme de Henry IV., at the Hague in 1743 Memoires sur la regne de Louis XIII., extending from 1610 to 1638, and of which the earlier portion is a reprint of the Histoire de la mere et du fils, published in Petitot's collection (Paris, 1823 seq.); Testament politique d'Armand du Plessis, cardinal de Richelieu (Amsterdam, 1687 seq.); Journal de 1630-31 (Paris, 1645); "Lettres, instructions diplomatiques, et papiers d'etat," published by G.

  • 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.

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