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tracteur

tractor

noun trak-TUR Rare
Travel & Places Transportation

Origin: Latin trahere 'to pull, to draw'

Usage Note

Tracteur refers to the agricultural machine used to pull equipment or till fields. The related verb tracter means to tow. French farmers (agriculteurs) often use tractors in political protests, and tracteur has become a symbol of rural France in public discourse. The feminine noun tractrice is a mathematical curve, not a machine.

Examples

"Le tracteur laboure le champ au printemps."

Natural Translation

The tractor ploughs the field in spring.

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