English-French translations for spartan

• spartiate
  Monsieur le Président, à l'intérieur de la maison européenne, la chambre d'enfant offre encore un aménagement très spartiate actuellement. Mr President, in the European Parliament, the room for young people and children is still, even now, equipped in only a very Spartan fashion.
• Spartiate
  Monsieur le Président, à l'intérieur de la maison européenne, la chambre d'enfant offre encore un aménagement très spartiate actuellement. Mr President, in the European Parliament, the room for young people and children is still, even now, equipped in only a very Spartan fashion.

Definition of spartan

• Austere, frugal, characterized by self-denial
• Resolute in the face of danger or adversity
• Lacking in decoration and luxury

Examples

• I went on the retreat to the monastery, thinking I would be sleeping in a spartan cell, only to discover a simple but comfortable bedroom
• The spartan legionaries vowed to fight to the death
• After ten years as a fashion designer in the rough-and-tumble Garment District, Eloise left New York for the spartan but serene life of a farmers wife

Related words

• spartanness
• Spartanness
• Spartanic