Definitions for Goncourt

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Goncourt Gon·court

Spelling: [gawn-koor; for 2 also English

IPA: /gɔ̃ˈkur; for 2 also English gɒnˈkʊər/

Goncourt is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in Goncourt (cgnoortu).

Definitions for Goncourt

noun

1. Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de [ed-mawn lwee ahn-twan y-oh duh] /ɛdˈmɔ̃ lwi ɑ̃ˈtwan üˈoʊ də/ (Show IPA), 1822–96, and his brother Jules Alfred Huot de [zhyl al-fred] /ʒyl alˈfrɛd/ (Show IPA) 1830–70, French art critics, novelists, and historians: collaborators until the death of Jules.
2. Prix [pree;; English pree] /pri;; English pri/ (Show IPA) an annual award of money made by a French literary society (Académie Goncourt) for the best prose work of the year.

Examples for Goncourt

When the Booker Prize was launched as the “British Goncourt” in 1969, it was met by a universal guffaw.

Goncourt is not an artist, notwithstanding all his affectation and outcries; he is not an artist.

The essay on the Goncourt is important, and we find in it typical dissociation.

The Goncourt brothers asked Gautier what life at Nohant was like.

And Goncourt assimilated this method with surprising results.

Here she became acquainted with Zola, Goncourt, Daudet, and others.

This is a novel which was awarded the Goncourt prize in 1921.

His characters, like Goncourt's, suffer from paralysis of the will, from hypersthesia.

But at least the Goncourt, with its derisory 50NF cash reward, had clean hands.

The Goncourt, the French literary prize, has lifelong judges—often themselves novelists.