Émile

American  

[ey-meel] / eɪˈmil /

noun

1. a didactic novel (1762) by J. J. Rousseau, dealing principally with the author's theories of education.

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Émile Cultural  

1. A work on education by Jean Jacques Rousseau, describing how a fictional boy, Émile, should be brought up. The book had an enormous influence on education during the age of romanticism and afterward.

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Example Sentences

Old allegiance, old history, shared blood, old tribes, old paper—Magna Carta, Émile Zola.

From The Wall Street Journal

Emile Goué, a French composer and prisoner in a German POW camp—where he contracted an illness that killed him shortly after the war ended—said that “music wasn’t entertainment or a game, but the very expression of our inner lives.”

From The Wall Street Journal

A loose 1878 crayon and ink-wash study for an illustration for Émile Zola’s “L’Assommoir” becomes a firmer, more detailed pen, ink and chalk version, made even more solid in the final reproduction.

From The Wall Street Journal

He earned a huge roar after getting back to make a crunching tackle on Emile Smith Rowe at one point.

From BBC

But it would not be until the early 1940s that a major breakthrough would allow more efficient undersea explorations, discoveries, and excavations in the form of an invention by Jacques Cousteau and Emile Gagnan.

From Literature