If I say “Bourse”, what does it mean to you in english ?

hyperboréen: If I say “Bourse”, what does it mean to you in english ?
I hope you would say “stock exchange” (that’s what babylon tells me). But i that a weird word to you ? or a old-fashioned word ?

Answers and Views:

Answer by krabbycash
? I cannot say that there is no word in the english language that sounds like Bourse

Answer by ♥Smexi Llama♥
I haven’t ever heard that word. Sounds French.

Answer by Matteo M
It would mean nothing to me.

Answer by adam h
i’ve never heard this word b4.i’ve only heard the stock exchange called,the “stock exchange.”now i think i’ll mystify my friends by saying”i’m going to wall street to check out the bourse.”

Answer by Orange Fish
It’s French. It’s not used in English, so it doesn’t really mean anything unless you are specifically referring to a French stock-market such as La Bourse de Paris.

Answer by MUSICGUY
if i didn’t speak french it wouldn’t mean anything to me
but i know it means stock exchange or grant
it can mean purse but i don’t think it’s used that much

Answer by Shining217
I worked for seven years at the Chicago Board of Trade and never once have I heard the word “bourse”. You learn something everyday! I’m going to look it up on-line right now.

Answer by rosends
while the word is an ENglish word (referring to any stock exchange) it derives from, and is almast always used in reference to a European exchange, most specifically, the exchange in Paris. In English the word is rarely if ever used.

Answer by GreenSheep
It means nothing to me I don’t know what it means.
It sounds as if it has a French origin which would imply that it’s quite old fashioned and upper class

Answer by Terra nostra
It means stock exchange in French.

The term “bourse” comes from the name of a Belgian businessman from Bruges called Van den Burse. Before present technological tools, the “bourse” or stock exchange was a physical place where titles of listed companies were bought and sold.

Other words are derived from the original “bourse” such as marché boursier, indice boursier, valeurs boursières.

Answer by Goddess of Grammar
Stock exchange
Is which a weird word? Stock exchange is the normal word in English. Bourse is the normal word in French.

Answer by Elektrisk
Never heard of that word in my life.

Answer by Delphine
mdr!!!!!

Mais aparemment , ya pas d’équivalent chez nos amis anglophones!