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la piste

/pist/ noun · feminine B1
  1. track or trail (left by an animal or person)
  2. track (road or other similar beaten path) · Une piste automobile dans le désert. A car track in the desert.· piste cyclable bicycle path
  3. lead, hint (e.g. in a police investigation) (figuratively) · La police est sur la piste d’un complot. The police are following a lead in a conspiracy.
  4. runway · piste d’atterrissage landing runway
  5. track (on a recording)
  6. racecourse
  7. ring in a circus
  8. floor (various activities such as dancing, skating, or fencing) · piste de danse dance floor

Plural pistes

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and forms from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.