Meanings
plural pieds-à-terre · alternative pied-a-terre
- A smaller temporary or secondary lodging; a second home, especially one in the city.
But the pied-à-terre at the embassy provides little privacy and has none of the grandeur for the formal events that an American ambassador posted to the United States’ closest Middle East ally is expected to host.
2021 December 1, Lara Jakes, Michael Crowley, “In Israel, the New U.S. Ambassador’s Home Lacks a Certain View”, in The New York Times, retrieved 01 Dec 2021
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Frenchpied-à-terre
- Frenchpied-à-terre
- Englishpied-à-terre
Borrowed from French pied-à-terre (“foot on the ground”).
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Arabic بيد أ تير, بيد آ تير
- بيد أ تيرsmaller secondary lodging
- بيد آ تيرsmaller secondary lodging
Catalan posada
- posadasmaller secondary lodging
Finnish kakkosasunto, kakkoskoti
- kakkosasuntosmaller secondary lodging
- kakkoskotismaller secondary lodging
French pied-à-terre
- pied-à-terresmaller secondary lodging
German Zweitwohnung, Pied-à-Terre
- Zweitwohnungsmaller secondary lodging
- Pied-à-Terresmaller secondary lodging
Hebrew פיד־א־טר
- פיד־א־טרsmaller secondary lodging
Italian piedatterra, pied-à-terre
- piedatterrasmaller secondary lodging
- pied-à-terresmaller secondary lodging
- piede a terrasmaller secondary lodging
Japanese ピエ・タ・テール, ピエ・ア・テール
- ピエ・タ・テール (Pie ta tēru)smaller secondary lodging
- ピエ・ア・テール (Pie a tēru)smaller secondary lodging
Polish stancja
- stancjasmaller secondary lodging
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with pied-à-terre
Cite this entry
pied-à-terre. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pied-%C3%A0-terre
“pied-à-terre.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pied-%C3%A0-terre. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pied-à-terre,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pied-%C3%A0-terre.
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