navette

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/nəˈvɛt/

noun

A shuttle bus in France.

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Meanings

nounnavette (plural navettes)

plural navettes

  1. A shuttle bus in France.

    To catch the Roissybus from Terminal 1, take the navette from door 22 (line 2)[…]

    2009, Kiratiana Freelon, Kiratiana's Travel Guide to Black Paris, page 45
    1 more example

    To address this, we explore the case of the navettes, informal vans that operate in the unlikely and unfriendly formal transport landscape of Brussels.

    2020, Wojciech Kębłowski, Moving in informal circles in the global North: An inquiry into the navettes in Brussels
  2. A kind of grape that grows in summer.

    The summer Navette is less cultivated than the Coleseed, being less prolific, the seeds being much smaller.

    1831, George Don, A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants
  3. obsoleteRapeseed
  4. A lenticular piece of jewelry.

Origin

  1. Frenchnavette
  2. Englishnavette

From French navette. By surface analysis, Latin nav- + -ette.

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Cite this entry
APA

navette. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/navette

MLA

“navette.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/navette. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “navette,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/navette.

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