naissance

American  

[ney-suhns] / ˈneɪ səns /

noun

1. a birth, an origination, or a growth, as that of a person, an organization, an idea, or a movement.

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Usage

What is naissance? A naissance is the beginning or birth of a person or idea, as in The naissance of our company came from the founder’s desire to work from home. Naissance is usually used to describe the beginning of something that is or is expected to be very important, large, or impressive. Naissance is also sometimes used to describe the birth of a person, because naissance is also the French term for birth. Example: We are in the naissance of online trading right now, but one day it will be huge.

Etymology

Origin of naissance

1480–90; < French, Middle French, equivalent to nais- (stem of naître to be born < Vulgar Latin *nāscere, for Latin nāscī ) + -ance -ance

Example Sentences

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Britain's most aggressive movie producer was last week conducting a recon naissance of the North American continent.

From Time Magazine Archive

The "of sorts" refers to the fact that we don't really have anything to bring back, or, in the Latin, "naissance."

From Time Magazine Archive

The darker our naissance, the greater the terrors that have brooded round that strife, the more august and puissant shines the angel in man.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Ernest Rhys

Thus miserably ended that too happy septennate, and so no more at present of "Le joli lieu de ma naissance!"

From Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier

Your majesty comes with both titles, and rules, like your great progenitor, Et par droit de conquête et par droit de naissance.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Walter Savage Landor