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What is "beaucoup"

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
beaucoup

French, literally "a great heap," from beau "fine, great" (see beau (n.)) + coup "a stroke," also "a throw," hence, "a heap" (see coup (n.)). Compare Spanish golpe "multitude."

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beaucoup

adv. In abundance. det. (context US English) much, many, a lot of. n. An abundance

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Beaucoup

Beaucoup is a French word meaning "many". It may also refer to:

  • Beaucoup, Illinois
  • Beaucoup Township, Washington County, Illinois
  • Beau Coup, a rock band from Cleveland, Ohio

Usage examples of "beaucoup".

Le petit Jean lui-meme comprend beaucoup de choses des bois, des etangs et des montagnes, car sa petite ame est une ame rustique.

Paradis terrestre un peu vieilli, mais, en somme, pas beaucoup change.

Lors de la guerre de Cent Ans, la petite ville eut beaucoup a souffrir et fit vaillamment son devoir.

Les habitants de Carnac attribuent a ces pierres une origine tres differente et beaucoup plus merveilleuse.

Apres la liasse de la mere, il passa a celle du fils, beaucoup plus volumineuse.

Le pain et le lait constituent une alimentation beaucoup plus profitable que le pain seul.

A cet endroit, la lave beaucoup moins liquide le retenait de toutes parts.

I left beaucoup notes for you and Kyle on some of the files I was able to get through.

In a military town with beaucoups of demand for rental properties, he had a high-handed marketing approach, maybe even a greedy-seeming one, but Mister JayMac didn’t care about the money he could make—he could do that renting to either GIs or players—but about the welfare of his immediate employees during each CVL season.

Milt Frye, the PA announcer, told us attendance stood at over three thousand, a better than decent turnout even if beaucoups of our admissions had “paid” for their seats with scrap metal.

On a road trip to Lanett, I read a story in the Highbridge Herald about Allied forces invading the island of Kiska, only to find—after taking beaucoups of casualties in the bedlam and fog:—the Japs’d already evacuated it.

The words are as follows: "Tant des ennemis manifestes de la vÈritÈ de Dieu, que de beaucoup de canailles qui se sont fourrez en son Eglise: tant des Moines qui ont apportÈ leurs frocs hors de leurs cloistres pour infecter le lieu o~ ils venoyent, que d'autres vilains qui ne valent pas mieux qu'eux.

If the rumors were correct, Paul had laid on beaucoup cases of Taittinger Blanc de Blancs '71 to toast the happy couple.

If you use my method, and mix up some generic Roach Prufe, so to speak, you'll save beaucoups bucks.