riant

From French riant.

riant (comparative more riant, superlative most riant)

1. Mirthful, cheerful, smiling, light-hearted.
2. Of a place, landscape or view: having a pleasant appearance, looking bright or cheerful.

• Artin, tairn, intra-, Trina, Train, tarin, Tarin, atrin, train, trian, Tiran, airnt

Borrowed from French riant, from Middle French riant, from Old French riant.

• IPA^(key): /riˈɑnt/

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• Hyphenation: ri‧ant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

riant (comparative rianter, superlative riantst)

1. (chiefly of buildings, valuable possessions and money) lavish, splendid, spacious, luxurious
2. (sports) decisive, overwhelming, convincing
3. (archaic) cheerful, riant

• IPA^(key): /ʁi.jɑ̃/

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• Rhymes: -jɑ̃

riant

1. present participle of rire
2. (preceded by en) gerund of rire

riant (feminine riante, masculine plural riants, feminine plural riantes)

1. laughing (in the process of laughing)

• souriant

• “riant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• train

• IPA^(key): /riˈant/

riant

1. present participle of rire

riant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular riant)

1. laughing
2. (by extension) joyous; happy

riant

1. soft mutation of rhiant