ozoner

English

Etymology

From the supposed concentration of ozone gas at such theaters +‎ -er (“Variety -er”).

Noun

ozoner (plural ozoners)

1. A drive-in movie theater.
   • 1997 September 14, “Starlite memories Series”, in St. Petersburg Times:

     Instead of The Ten Commandments, ozoners were filled with pictures like The Beach Girls and the Monster, High School Hellcats, and Billy Jack

   • 1998 July 26, “The `Ozoner' Layer Colorado's Remaining Drive-ins Flicker With Nostalgia, New Appeal”, in Rocky Mountain News:

     But it wasn't just Denver that was once infatuated with ozoners The whole country was in love with driveins

   • 2002 June 30, “KC is a movie lover's paradise”, in The Kansas City Star, The:

     Are you an ozoner fan? Well if you do love drivein movies KC offers seven outdoor screens from which to choose

French

Pronunciation

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Verb

ozoner

1. to ozonate

   Synonym: ozoniser

Conjugation

Conjugation of ozoner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	ozoner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	ozonant /o.zɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		ozoné /o.zɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	ozone /o.zɔn/	ozones /o.zɔn/	ozone /o.zɔn/	ozonons /o.zɔ.nɔ̃/	ozonez /o.zɔ.ne/	ozonent /o.zɔn/
	imperfect	ozonais /o.zɔ.nɛ/	ozonais /o.zɔ.nɛ/	ozonait /o.zɔ.nɛ/	ozonions /o.zɔ.njɔ̃/	ozoniez /o.zɔ.nje/	ozonaient /o.zɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	ozonai /o.zɔ.ne/	ozonas /o.zɔ.na/	ozona /o.zɔ.na/	ozonâmes /o.zɔ.nam/	ozonâtes /o.zɔ.nat/	ozonèrent /o.zɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	ozonerai /o.zɔn.ʁe/	ozoneras /o.zɔn.ʁa/	ozonera /o.zɔn.ʁa/	ozonerons /o.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/	ozonerez /o.zɔn.ʁe/	ozoneront /o.zɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	ozonerais /o.zɔn.ʁɛ/	ozonerais /o.zɔn.ʁɛ/	ozonerait /o.zɔn.ʁɛ/	ozonerions /o.zɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	ozoneriez /o.zɔ.nə.ʁje/	ozoneraient /o.zɔn.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	ozone /o.zɔn/	ozones /o.zɔn/	ozone /o.zɔn/	ozonions /o.zɔ.njɔ̃/	ozoniez /o.zɔ.nje/	ozonent /o.zɔn/
	imperfect2	ozonasse /o.zɔ.nas/	ozonasses /o.zɔ.nas/	ozonât /o.zɔ.na/	ozonassions /o.zɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	ozonassiez /o.zɔ.na.sje/	ozonassent /o.zɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	ozone /o.zɔn/	—	ozonons /o.zɔ.nɔ̃/	ozonez /o.zɔ.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “ozoner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.