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Petit Robert

Petit Robert

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Le Petit Robert is a popular single-volume French
French language
French is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...

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Dictionary
A dictionary is a collection of words in a specific language, often listed alphabetically, with definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...

 first published by Paul Robert
Paul Robert
Paul Charles Jules Robert , usually called Paul Robert, was a French lexicographer and publisher, best-known for his large Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française , often called simply the Robert, and its abridgement, the Petit Robert .-...

 in 1967, an abridgement of his eight-volume Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française.
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Le Petit Robert is a popular single-volume French
French language
French is a Romance language globally spoken by about 65 million people as a first language , by 50 million as a second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired foreign language, with significant speakers in 57 countries. Most native speakers of the language live in France,...

 dictionary
Dictionary
A dictionary is a collection of words in a specific language, often listed alphabetically, with definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...

 first published by Paul Robert
Paul Robert
Paul Charles Jules Robert , usually called Paul Robert, was a French lexicographer and publisher, best-known for his large Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française , often called simply the Robert, and its abridgement, the Petit Robert .-...

 in 1967, an abridgement of his eight-volume Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française.

, it is in its fourth edition and is available in both print and electronic forms.
It is also widely used across European nations.
It is published by Dictionnaires Le Robert
Dictionnaires Le Robert
Dictionnaires Le Robert is a French publisher of dictionaries founded by Paul Robert.-Monolingual French dictionaries:Dictionnaires Le Robert publishes the multivolume French-language Dictionnaire alphabétique et analogique de la langue française; the single-volume Petit Robert dictionary; various...

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