Tocqueville

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UK/ˈtəʊkvɪl/UK/ˈtɒkvɪl/

proper noun

A commune of Eure department, Normandy, France.

OriginFrench Tocqueville →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A commune of Eure department, Normandy, France.
  2. A commune of Manche department, Normandy, France.
  3. A surname from French — famously held by:
    1. François-Hippolyte Clérel de Tocqueville (1797–1877), senator of the French Third Republic
    2. Alexis Charles Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805–1859), French diplomat, political scientist, historian, and author of De la Démocratie en Amérique (two volumes, 1835–1840) and L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution (1856)

Origin

  1. FrenchTocqueville
  2. EnglishTocqueville

Borrowed from French Tocqueville.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 托克維爾 /托克维尔
  • 托克維爾 /托克维尔 (Tuōkèwéi'ěr)French surname
Cite this entry
APA

Tocqueville. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tocqueville

MLA

“Tocqueville.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tocqueville. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tocqueville,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tocqueville.

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