Definition of Pierre Larousse

1. Noun. French lexicographer (1817-1875).

Exact synonyms: Larousse, Pierre Athanase Larousse
Generic synonyms: Lexicographer, Lexicologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pierre Larousse

Pieris floribunda
Pieris japonica
Pieris protodice
Pieris rapae
Pierre
Pierre-Paul Broca
Pierre Abelard
Pierre Athanase Larousse
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Charles L'Enfant
Pierre Corneille
Pierre Curie
Pierre Joseph Proudhon
Pierre Laporte Bridge
Pierre Larousse (current term)
Pierre Simon de Laplace
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Terrail
Pierre Trudeau salute
Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Terrail
Pierrot
Pierrots
Piers
Piet Mondrian
Pieter Breughel
Pieter Bruegel
Pieter Brueghel
Pieter Brueghel the Elder

Literary usage of Pierre Larousse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and ...by John Clark Ridpath by John Clark Ridpath (1898)
"... a large number of works in verse; in which, says Pierre Larousse, " il ya des pages d'une rare beaute, rappelant les plus beaux vers de Thomas Moore. ..."

2. American Notes and Queries edited by William Shepard Walsh, Henry Collins Walsh, William H. Garrison, Samuel R. Harris (1890)
""Arrêter, dans le langage des marins, des mécaniciens et des habitués des courses des chevaux" (Pierre Larousse). TOAST, nm (from the English toast). ..."

3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"Proudhon, who was to have collaborated on it, but who died prematurely, wrote to Pierre Larousse: 'When you get to the articles on God and Property, ..."

4. The Bookman (1910)
"Pierre Larousse—PUBLISHER OF ENCYCLOPAEDIAS Another teacher-publisher, who ably seconded ... Pierre Larousse was the son of a plough-maker of Toucy (Yonne), ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"In France, Le Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIX' siècle, oí Pierre Larousse (15 vols., 1866-1876), with supplementary volumes in 1877, 1887 and 1890; ..."

6. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... (this is in no way a re-issue or an abridgment of Le Grand Dictionnaire of Pierre Larousse); La Grande Encyclopedic, inventaire raisonné des sciences, ..."

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