English word senses marked with place category "Regions of France": list

English word senses marked with place category "Regions of France"

Total 84 word senses

Alsace (Proper name) A region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the region of Grand Est. It has changed hands between France and Germany several times throughout history.

Alsace-Lorraine (Proper name) A historical state in Germany (1871-1918)

Alsatian (Noun) A German shepherd dog.

Angevin (Adjective) Of or pertaining to Anjou (province and House)

Angevin (Noun) A native or resident of Anjou

Ardennes (Proper name) A placename; forest and mountainous region in France, Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg.

Arlesian (Noun) Someone who lives in or is from the city of Arles, France.

Armagnac (Proper name) A region and former county of the duchy of Gascony in modern-day France.

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (Proper name) An administrative region of France, created in 2016 by the merger of Auvergne and Rhône-Alpes. Seat: Lyon.

Barsac (Proper name) A region of France near Bordeaux.

Basque Country (Proper name) A region that straddles the border of Spain and France.

Bordelais (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Bordeaux in France.

Bourgogne (Proper name) A region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Bourgogne-Franche-Comté (Proper name) An administrative region in eastern France, created in 2016 by the merger of Burgundy and Franche-Comté.

Breton (Noun) A person from Brittany.

Breton (Noun) The Celtic language of Brittany.

Breton (Adjective) Of or pertaining to Brittany.

Brie (Proper name) A region in northern France.

Brittany (Proper name) An administrative region, historical province, and peninsula in northwest France.

Burgundian (Proper name) The extinct East Germanic language of the Burgundians.

Burgundy (Proper name) A region and former administrative region of France; since 2016, part of the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté.

Centre-Val de Loire (Proper name) An administrative region in central France, previously named Centre.

Champagne (Proper name) A region and former province of France, the terroir of the wine champagne; now part of Grand Est.

Corsi (Noun) an ancient tribe (or people from the tribe) that lived in Corsica and Sardinia

Corsica (Proper name) An island, department, and administrative region of France, in the Mediterranean to the north of Sardinia.

Corsican (Adjective) Of, from, or pertaining to Corsica, the Corsican people or the Corsican language.

Corsican (Noun) A person from Corsica or of Corsican descent.

Corsican (Proper name) The language of the Corsican people.

Dahut (Proper name) The daughter of Gradlon, king of the city of Ys.

Disneyland (Proper name) The archetypical theme park, located in Anaheim, California. Other Disneyland theme parks exist in other cities such as Chessy (Seine-et-Marne, France), Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

French Guiana (Proper name) An overseas department and administrative region of France in South America. Official name: Department of French Guiana.

Gascony (Proper name) A region of France.

Gradlon (Proper name) The king of the city of Ys.

Grand Est (Proper name) An administrative region in northeastern France, created in 2016 by the fusion of Alsace, Lorraine and Champagne-Ardenne.

Guadeloupe (Proper name) An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, including the island of Guadeloupe.

Guyenne (Proper name) A region of France.

Hauts-de-France (Proper name) An administrative region of France, created in 2016 by the merger of Nord-Pas-de-Calais and Picardy.

Kemper (Proper name) the Breton name for Quimper, France (see Breton language entry below).

Kemper (Proper name) An unincorporated community in Jersey County, Illinois, United States.

Kemper (Proper name) An unincorporated community in Dillon County, South Carolina, United States.

Lorrainer (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Lorraine.

Lorrainian (Proper name) The Rhine Franconian (and hence West Central German, Central German, High German) dialect spoken in Lorraine; Lorraine Franconian.

Lyonese (Noun) natives or inhabitants of Lyon

Marseillais (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Marseille in France.

Martinican (Adjective) Of, from, or pertaining to Martinique, the Martinican people or the Martinican language.

Martiniquais (Adjective) Martinican

Martiniquais (Noun) A Martinican.

Martiniquan (Adjective) Alternative spelling of Martinican

Martiniquan (Noun) Alternative spelling of Martinican

Martinique (Proper name) An island, overseas department, and administrative region of France, in the Caribbean. Official name: Department of Martinique.

Mayotte (Proper name) An archipelago, overseas department, and administrative region of France, formerly an overseas territorial collectivity, located between Africa's mainland and Madagascar.

Middle Breton (Proper name) An early form of Breton language, spoken in Brittany, in western France, between the 11th and the 16th century AD.

Nantes (Proper name) The capital city of the department of Loire-Atlantique, France; the capital city of the region of Pays de la Loire, in historical Brittany.

Niçois (Adjective) Relating to the French city of Nice.

Norman (Proper name) A number of places in the United States:; A township in Manistee County, Michigan.

Norman (Proper name) A number of places in the United States:; An inactive township in Dent County, Missouri

Norman (Proper name) A number of places in the United States:; A village in Kearney County, Nebraska.

Normandy (Proper name) An administrative region, historical province, and medieval kingdom in northwest France, on the English Channel. The modern region was created in 2016 with the merger of Upper Normandy and Lower Normandy.

Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Proper name) An administrative region in southwestern France, established in 2016 by the merger of Aquitaine, Limousin, and Poitou-Charentes.

Occitanie (Proper name) An administrative region in southern France, created in 2016 by the merger of Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées.

Old Breton (Proper name) An early form of Breton language, spoken in the North of France in the between the 9th and the 11th century AD.

Old Port (Proper name) A region of Marseilles, France

Pays de la Loire (Proper name) An administrative region of France, near Brittany.

Picard (Noun) A high shoe for men, introduced to England from France about 1720.

Picardian (Noun) A native or inhabitant of Picardy in France.

Provence (Proper name) A maritime region of southeastern France bordering Italy, now included in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur (Proper name) An administrative region of France.

Provençal (Proper name) The language spoken in Provence; Occitan.

Périgord (Proper name) A region and former province of France, corresponding roughly to the modern Dordogne.

Roussillon (Proper name) A region of Occitanie, France, approximately coterminous with Pyrénées-Orientales, that was once a part of Catalonia.

Roussillonese (Noun) The northern dialect of the Catalan language spoken in Roussillon and North-Eastern Catalonia.

Réunion (Proper name) An island, overseas department, and administrative region of France, located in the Indian Ocean to the west of Mauritius and to the east of Madagascar.

Savoyard (Proper name) The dialect spoken in Savoy (Savoie and Haute-Savoie in France, canton of Valais in Switzerland, and in the Italian region of Aosta).

Strait of Bonifacio (Proper name) A strait between Corsica and Sardinia, connecting the Tyrrhenian Sea and the western Mediterranean Sea.

Toulousain (Noun) An inhabitant of Toulouse.

Ys (Proper name) A mythical sunken city in Brittany.

brie (Noun) An originally French variety of soft cheese made from cow's milk.

camembert (Noun) A soft, creamy cheese from France made from cow's milk.

chouval bwa (Noun) A genre of rural folk music that originated on the slave plantations of Martinique.

kaletez (Noun) A type of thin buckwheat pancake in Breton cuisine.

kouign-amann (Noun) A traditional Breton cake made of layers of butter, dough, and sugar.

lockram (Noun) a type of rough fabric from Brittany

Île-de-France (Proper name) An administrative region in north-central France, including Paris.

112 (Proper name) The telephone number for emergency services on all GSM cell phones and in the EU, Russia, United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Ukraine, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome, the Seychelles, Uganda, East Timor, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, North Macedonia, Vatican City, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and S…

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