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# veau

«veau» in Mova's school dictionary: **the French word for a calf (a baby cow), and also for…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (French; le veau, les veaux) — not an English word

### meaning for a pupil

1) (French) «Veau» is the French word for a calf (a baby cow), and also for veal, the meat of a calf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veau/#m1)

2) It sounds like «voh» to an English ear (rhymes with «go», with a «v»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veau/#m2)

3) It is not an English word; English took «veal» from the old French form of this word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veau/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In French lessons on food and farm animals, «le veau» appears on menus («blanquette de veau», a veal stew) and in lists like «la vache» (cow), «le veau» (calf), «le taureau» (bull). It tells an English reader something is French cooking or a French farm. «Veau» also appears in «ris de veau» (calf sweetbreads) on French menus.

### examples

- In French, «le veau» means «the calf». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veau/#x1)
- The French menu said «blanquette de veau» — a creamy veal stew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veau/#x2)
- «Veau» sounds like «voh». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veau/#x3)
- In our French farm song, «la vache et le veau» means «the cow and the calf». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veau/#x4)
- English «veal» comes from the old French word that became «veau». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veau/#x5)
- My aunt in Paris ordered «escalope de veau». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veau/#x6)

### note

French, not English. Masculine: «le veau»; plural «les veaux» (say «lay voh» — the «x» is silent). The «-eau» spelling in French says «oh», as in «gâteau», «château», «bureau». Do not confuse «veau» with «vaut» (is worth) or «vos» (your), which can sound alike.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «veau» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/veau/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.