Antoine

[an-twahn, ahn-twan]

noun

1. André 1858–1943, French theatrical director, manager, and critic.

2. Père Francisco Ildefonso Mareno, 1748–1829, Roman Catholic priest in Louisiana: tried to establish an Inquisition.

3. a first name, French form of Anthony.

Example Sentences

“Boyhood,” shot over 12 years, now seems like a hat-tip to Truffaut’s five-film series that saw “The 400 Blows’” Antoine Doinel grow into a man; the “Before” trilogy allowed Linklater to flip the script of Seberg and Belmondo’s romance and pair a beautiful French blonde with an American scamp.

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In 1746, Antoine Augustin Calmet, a French Benedictine monk, published what Mr. Blair calls the “most influential academic work” on vampirism and shaped the emerging genre of Gothic fiction.

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Independent MP Antoine Assale told AFP progress has indeed been made.

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I might as well toss a coin here... but I am going to go with Antoine Semenyo to win it for Bournemouth, although you can guarantee that Palace will score in the first five minutes now.

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"The difficulty we have now is questions of access," said Antoine Renard, WFP director in the Palestinian territories, speaking from Deir el-Balah in central Gaza.

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