BASLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Basle mean? 

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

1. a city in northwestern Switzerland

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in northwestern Switzerland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bale; Basel; Basle

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)

 Context examples 

In the meantime we shall treat ourselves to a couple of carpet-bags, encourage the manufactures of the countries through which we travel, and make our way at our leisure into Switzerland, via Luxembourg and Basle.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)