Meanings
- A coastal town in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
1 more example
Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the Nazis’ noses.
2021 May 9, Andrew Gumbel, “Raid on Dieppe masked secret mission to steal Nazis’ Enigma machine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Origin
- Middle FrenchDiepe
- Middle EnglishDepe
- EnglishDieppe
Inherited from Middle English Depe, from Middle French Diepe; the modern pronunciation is a refashioning after modern French Dieppe. The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.
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French Dieppe, Dieppe
- Dieppetown in Normandy, France
- Dieppecity in New Brunswick, Canada
German Dieppe
- Dieppetown in Normandy, France
Japanese ディエップ, ディエップ
- ディエップ (Dieppu)town in Normandy, France
- ディエップ (Dieppu)city in New Brunswick, Canada
Korean 디에프, 디에프
- 디에프 (diepeu)town in Normandy, France
- 디에프 (diepeu)city in New Brunswick, Canada
Latin Dieppa
- Dieppatown in Normandy, France
Spanish Dieppe, Diepa
- Dieppetown in Normandy, France
- Diepatown in Normandy, France
Rhymes & wordplay
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Dieppe. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dieppe
“Dieppe.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dieppe. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dieppe,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dieppe.
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