AVIGNON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Avignon mean? 

• AVIGNON (noun)
  The noun AVIGNON has 1 sense:

1. a town in southeastern France on the Rhone River; the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of antipopes during the Great Schism

  Familiarity information: AVIGNON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AVIGNON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in southeastern France on the Rhone River; the seat of the papacy from 1309 to 1378 and the residence of antipopes during the Great Schism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Avignon" is a part of...):

France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)

 Context examples 

“Have we not all heard how he went to Avignon and squeezed fifty thousand crowns out of the Pope.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

May be his sister is worse at Avignon, and has sent for him over.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

For this we had an excommunication read against the man, when next we saw our holy father at Avignon; but as we had not his name, and knew nothing of him, save that he rode a dapple-gray roussin, I have feared sometimes that the blight may have settled upon the wrong man.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Was it from Avignon?

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He would then come upon that part of France which is still in dispute, and he might hope to reach the famous city of Avignon, where dwells our blessed father, the prop of Christendom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)