Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A simple, usually inexpensive rural vacation retreat especially in France.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
gist . - noun A gown.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A gown.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
gîte . - noun obsolete A
gown .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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First, a week in a 'gite' in the Loire Valley countryside near Angers, relaxing (me) and practising (Tom).
Archive 2004-09-01 Jessica 2004
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First, a week in a 'gite' in the Loire Valley countryside near Angers, relaxing (me) and practising (Tom).
Francophilia! Jessica 2004
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There was a little covered walkway from the gite to the large but dilapidated dove house with tiles made as you mentioned but along the edge there were marks made (by man) that resembled pigeon footprints.
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Just a little French oddity I had meant to share with you when I was in Chaunac (Charente Maritime) staying in a small gite.
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This does bring back memories of the European Cup in 2004 when we stayed at a gite in St Didier - a lovely, friendly little Provencal village.
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After a few days combing Marrakech's maze-like medina for treasures to take home, you head into the High Atlas mountains near Oukaimeden to go trekking with Berbers for three days, staying in a village gite where you'll take long lunches under the walnut trees.
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Just a little French oddity I had meant to share with you when I was in Chaunac Charente Maritime staying in a small gite.
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There was a little covered walkway from the gite to the large but dilapidated dove house with tiles made as you mentioned but along the edge there were marks made by man that resembled pigeon footprints.
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And if they grow up to hate camping, they can always go and stay with their grandparents in a gite in a remote corner of France, while I take my tent up a Welsh mountain.
Archive 2009-05-01 The List Writer 2009
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This does bring back memories of the European Cup in 2004 when we stayed at a gite in St Didier - a lovely,friendly little Provencal village.
BrainyBabe commented on the word gite
A holiday apartment in France, pronounced "jzeet". (Does Wordie support IPA?) The French word is often used by British people, as A) it is several syllables shorter than any reasonable alternative, and B) it handily announces that one is off for a foreign, but relatively carbon-benign, holiday.
December 23, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word gite
Yup: ʒiːt. Sadly you don't seem to be able to control the font, so it looks ungainly.
December 23, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word gite
Thanks for the IPA! How does one do that?
December 23, 2008
BrainyBabe commented on the word gite
Oh, I forgot: reason C), to demonstrate that one can pronounce French, and that therefore one is a properly brought up middle class person; see Posie Simmonds's modern updating of "Madame Bovary".
December 23, 2008
corylusavellana commented on the word gite
BrainyBabe.... what better use of language is there?!
December 23, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word gite
You do it the hard way: [ʒiːt].
December 23, 2008
michaelt42 commented on the word gite
I expect to find 'gite' in printed matter, but I prefer to write "gîte", longhand or on the keyboard.
May 27, 2013
MaryW commented on the word gite
Kate Atkinson, Case Histories (New York: Little Brown & Co., 2004), p. 347.May 30, 2016