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FRENCH REGION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A geographical subdivision of France
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("French region" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Instance hyponyms:
Provence (a former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azur)
Rhone-Alpes (a mountainous region of eastern France drained by the Rhone and Saone and Isere rivers)
Poitou; Poitou-Charentes (a low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay)
Picardie; Picardy (a region of northern France on the English Channel)
Pays de la Loire (an agricultural region of western France on the Bay of Biscay)
Nord-Pas-de-Calais (a region in northeastern France)
Midi-Pyrenees (a region in southwestern France)
Mayenne (a department of northwestern France in the Pays de la Loire region)
Martinique (an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France)
Lorraine; Lothringen (an eastern French region rich in iron-ore deposits)
Limousin (a region of central France to the west of the Auvergne mountains)
Languedoc-Roussillon (a region in south central France; named after the medieval dialect of French that was spoken there)
Ile-de-France (a region of north central France including Paris and the area around it)
Haute-Normandie; Upper-Normandy (a division of Normandy)
Gascogne; Gascony (a region of southwestern France)
Franche-Comte (a former province of eastern France)
Corse; Corsica (a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte)
Champagne; Champagne-Ardenne (a region of northeastern France)
Centre (a low-lying region in central France)
Breiz; Bretagne; Brittany (a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay)
Bourgogne; Burgundy (a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines)
Basse-Normandie; Lower-Normandy (a division of Normandy)
Auvergne (a region in central France)
Artois (a former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders))
Aquitaine; Aquitania (a region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees)
Anjou (a former province of western France in the Loire valley)
Alsace; Alsatia; Elsass (a region of northeastern France famous for its wines)
Cote d'Azur; French Riviera (the French part of the Riviera)
Holonyms ("French region" is a part of...):
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
