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

Declension of riant
uninflected	riant
inflected	riante
comparative	rianter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		riant	rianter	het riantst het riantste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	riante	riantere	riantste
	n. sing.	riant	rianter	riantste
	plural	riante	riantere	riantste
definite		riante	riantere	riantste
partitive		riants	rianters	—

• 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.