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# piscine

adjective (piscine — formal, rare); French noun «piscine» (not English)

«piscine» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (formal, science) Piscine means to do with fish or like a fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piscine/#m1)
2. (French) «Une piscine» means a swimming pool; it sounds like «pee-SEEN» and is a French word, not English. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piscine/#m2)

### In the lessons

In English, «piscine» is a rare scientific or jokey word: a «piscine smell» is fishy. In French lessons, «la piscine» is the swimming pool — a false friend for English learners. Related English word: «Pisces», the fish sign in star-sign lore.

### Examples

- The pond had a piscine smell. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piscine/#x1)
- The scientist studied piscine diseases. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piscine/#x2)
- «Je vais à la piscine» means «I'm going to the swimming pool» in French. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piscine/#x3)
- In French, «piscine» is the pool, not the fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piscine/#x4)
- Pisces is the star sign with two fish. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piscine/#x5)
- The aquarium is a piscine paradise. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piscine/#x6)

### Note

English adjective is rare and formal, pronounced «PISS-ine» or «PIE-sine». False friend: French «piscine» = swimming pool. Everyday English for «piscine» is «fishy».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «piscine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/piscine/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«piscine» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/piscine.html) on Mova free.