English Explanatory Dictionary

Tocqueville

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A commune of Eure department, Normandy, France.
  2. A commune of Manche department, Normandy, France.
  3. A surname from French — famously held by:
  4. François-Hippolyte Clérel de Tocqueville (1797–1877), senator of the French Third Republic
  5. Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French diplomat, political scientist, historian, and author of De la Démocratie en Amérique (two volumes, 1835–1840) and L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856)

Pronunciation

/ˈtəʊkvɪl/ /ˈtɒkvɪl/

Word forms

Tocqueville

Etymology

Borrowed from French Tocqueville.

Related words

Tocqueville-en-Caux Tocqueville-les-Murs Tocqueville-sur-Eu

Derived words

Tocqueville effect Tocquevillian

Translations

Chinese Mandarin: 托克維爾 /托克维尔 Marathi: टोकव्हिल
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