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adret

Pronunciation: /ˈædɹeɪ/

The English word “adret” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. The sun-facing side of a mountain; in the northern hemisphere, this is typically the south-facing slope.

Etymology

Borrowed from French adret or Occitan adret, adré, adrech, adreit (“sun-facing side of a mountain”), from Old Occitan adreg, adreit, from a (“to, towards”) (from Latin ad (“to, towards”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd (“at; to”)) + dreg, dreit (“just; right”) (from Latin dīrēctus (“direct, straight”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- (“to straighten, right oneself; just,…

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