bien entendu
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of bien entendu
Literally, “well understood”
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He loves and he rides away—when the lady won't have him, bien entendu.
From Vixen, Volume III. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
That is, bien entendu, her old fears and her old hopes; and amid the ruins of the latter new ones were starting, in equally bewildering confusion.
From Nobody by Susan Warner
It makes their lives so much more interesting—to the onlooker, bien entendu, but not to themselves.
From Roden's Corner by Henry Seton Merriman
All my life I have doubted, I have never been an orthodox Mohammedan—though I have had to keep my ideas to myself bien entendu!
From The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull
This, bien entendu, when his majesty is engaged in stalking.
From The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) by Mme. la Marquise de Fontenoy
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
