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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 festival
Familiarity information: CANNES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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