BRITTANY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Brittany mean? 

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

1. a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRITTANY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Breiz; Bretagne; Brittany

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

Meronyms (members of "Brittany"):

Breton (a native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language))

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

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

 Context examples 

The Brittany is a vigorous, medium-sized, leggy dog with a fairly short, lightly feathered single coat.

(Brittany Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)

It is, my lord, and I swear it by St. Ives of Brittany.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This, however, I know, that my wife is come of a very sainted race, whom God hath in His wisdom endowed with wondrous powers, so that Tiphaine Raquenel was known throughout Brittany ere ever I first saw her at Dinan.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“These are the levies of France, for I can see the ensigns of the Marshal d'Andreghen, with that of the Lord of Antoing and of Briseuil, and of many another from Brittany and Anjou.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is certain also, that the brave and worthy Bertrand de Guesclin hath ridden into France to the Duke of Anjou, and purposes to take back with him great levies from Picardy and Brittany.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)