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CANNES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cannes mean? 

CANNES (noun)
  The noun CANNES has 1 sense:

1. a port and resort city on the French Riviera; site of an annual film festivalplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


CANNES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A port and resort city on the French Riviera; site of an annual film festival

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

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


 Context examples 


I saw them one spring in Cannes and later in Deauville and then they came back to Chicago to settle down.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)



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