debutante

• débutante
• debûtante

From French débutante.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌdɛbjuːˈtɑːnt/, /ˌdeɪbjuːˈtɑːnt/

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debutante (plural debutantes)

1. A young woman who makes her first formal appearance in society.

   Synonym: (informal) deb

2. A female debutant, especially in sport and entertainment.

• debutant

•   debutante on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “debutante”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• unabetted

Borrowed from French débutante or from debutant +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ˌdeː.byˈtɑn.tə/

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• Hyphenation: de‧bu‧tan‧te
• Rhymes: -ɑntə

debutante f (plural debutantes, masculine debutant)

1. a debutante, a woman who debuts

• debuteren
• debuut

debutante m or f (plural debutantes)

1. novice, first-time

debutante m or f by sense (plural debutantes)

1. beginner, first-timer
2. debutant (especially a girl celebrating her fifteenth birthday)

debutante m or f (masculine and feminine plural debutantes)

1. novice, first-time

debutante m or f by sense (plural debutantes)

1. debutant, beginner, first-timer

• “debutante”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28