dauphins
Meaning of dauphins
plural noun
the eldest son of the King of France.
French, from the family name of the lords of the Dauphiné, an area of SE France: ultimately a nickname meaning ‘dolphin’. In 1349 the future Charles V acquired the lands and the title; when king he ceded them to his eldest son, establishing the practice of passing both title and lands to the Crown Prince.
Information about dauphins
- It is a name.
- The singular form of dauphins is: dauphin.
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Hyphenation of dauphins
dauphins
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- dauphins is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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