gendarmeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French gendarme, from plural gendarmes, a re-spelling of gens d'armes (“people of arms", "armed people”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ʒɒnˈdɑːm/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ʒɑnˈdɑɹm/
• 韻: -ɑː(ɹ)m

名詞

gendarme (plural gendarmes or gensdarmes)

1. A member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties.
2. A policeman.
   • 2003, Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Debating Cosmopolitics, Verso, page 170:

     The US is tempted to play the role of global gendarme because everyone knows that the UN, as it is, lacks the resources and capacity to fill this role.

3. A rock pinnacle on a mountain ridge.
   • 1979, Chris Jones, Climbing in North America, →ISBN, page 118:

     The previous attempts foundered when they tried to take this gendarme directly.

   • 1998, Climbing - Issues 178-180, page 64:

     The Arete starts easily, with several beautiful, loping pitches leading to a striking gendarme.

   • 2013, Joe Kelsey, Climbing and Hiking in the Wind River Mountains, →ISBN, page 259:

     Continuing to the main summit involves ascents of the gendarmes (the first being the owl-eared one referred to in the next route description) and 140-foot rappels down their south sides.

派生語

• gendarmish

同意語

• (police officer): see Thesaurus:police officer

アナグラム

• red mange