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CHABLIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling it
Synonyms:
Chablis; white Burgundy
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("Chablis" is a kind of...):
white wine (pale yellowish wine made from white grapes or red grapes with skins removed before fermentation)
Burgundy; Burgundy wine (red table wine from the Burgundy region of France (or any similar wine made elsewhere))
Sense 2
Meaning:
A town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Chablis" is a part of...):
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)