ouvert

Borrowed from French ouvert. Doublet of apert and 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.

• misère ouvert

Inherited from Middle French ouvert, from Old French overt, from Vulgar Latin *opertus, from Latin apertus. Doublet of apert.

• IPA^(key): /u.vɛʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁ
• Homophone: ouverts

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

1. open

   Antonym: fermé

2. switched on
3. (heraldry) of a building: having a door of a specified colour

• ouverture
• ouvrir
• couvert

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

1. past participle of ouvrir

• Antillean Creole: ouvè
• Haitian Creole: ouvè
• Louisiana Creole: ouvèr
• Mauritian Creole: ouver, uver
• Seychellois Creole: ouver
• → English: ouvert
• → German: ouvert

• “ouvert”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• trouve, trouvé, vouter, voûter

From Old French overt.

ouvert

1. past participle of ouvrir

• French: ouvert (see there for further descendants)

ouvert m

1. Alternative form of ouvaert