réclame

réclame

See also: reclame, reclamé, and réclamé

English

Etymology

From French réclame.

Noun

réclame (uncountable)

1. (now rare) Publicity; an advertisement. [from 19th c.]
2. Fame, acclaim, notoriety. [from 19th c.]
   • 1984, Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac, Penguin 2016, p. 154:

     Admirable Mrs Pusey, thought Edith. Protected by the brilliance of her own réclame.

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French

Etymology

From réclamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.klam/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

réclame f (plural réclames)

1. a small, commercial advertisement, originally in the printed press

   Synonyms: avertissement, pub

2. (by extension) all similar advertising

   Synonym: publicité

Descendants

• Mauritian Creole: reklam
• → Danish: reklame
• → Dutch: reclame
  • → Indonesian: reklame
• → German: Reklame
  • → Hungarian: reklám
  • → Polish: reklama
  • → Romanian: reclamă
• → Italian: reclame
• → Norwegian Bokmål: reklame
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: reklame
• → Spanish: reclame
• → Swedish: reklam
• → Finnish: reklaami
• → Turkish: reklam
• → Estonian: reklaam
• → Russian: реклама (reklama)

Noun

réclame m (plural réclames)

1. (falconry) reclaim (a falconry call and sign for the bird of prey to return to the falconer)

Verb

réclame

1. inflection of réclamer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

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