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FRANCHE-COMTE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Franche-Comte mean?
• FRANCHE-COMTE (noun)
The noun FRANCHE-COMTE has 1 sense:
1. a former province of eastern France
Familiarity information: FRANCHE-COMTE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A former province of eastern France
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
French region (a geographical subdivision of France)
Holonyms ("Franche-Comte" is a part of...):
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
Context examples
Those regions where the heaviest rainfall were found include Nord-pas-de-calais, Picardy, Isle of France – where Paris is located, Champagne-Ardenne, Burgundy, Centre and Franche-Comte.
(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)
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