FRENCH CAPITAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does French capital mean? 

• FRENCH CAPITAL (noun)
  The noun FRENCH CAPITAL has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

  Familiarity information: FRENCH CAPITAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRENCH CAPITAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of France; City of Light; French capital; Paris

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "French capital"):

Eiffel Tower (a wrought iron tower 300 meters high that was constructed in Paris in 1889; for many years it was the tallest man-made structure)

Champs Elysees (a major avenue in Paris famous for elegant shops and cafes)

Ile-St-Louis (island in Paris on the Seine)

Right Bank (the region of Paris on the north bank of the Seine)

Orly (a southeastern suburb of Paris; site of an international airport serving Paris)

Clichy; Clichy-la-Garenne (a northwestern suburb of Paris; the residence of the Merovingian royalty in the 7th century)

Montmartre (the highest point in Paris; famous for its associations with many artists)

Latin Quarter; Left Bank (the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life)

Tuileries; Tuileries Palace (palace and royal residence built for Catherine de Medicis in 1564 and burned down in 1871; all that remains today are the formal gardens)

Tuileries; Tuileries Gardens (formal gardens next to the Louvre in Paris)

Paris University; Sorbonne; University of Paris (a university in Paris; intellectual center of France)

Louvre; Louvre Museum (an art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris)

Bastille (a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution)

Meronyms (members of "French capital"):

Parisian (a native or resident of Paris)

Parisienne (a female native or resident of Paris)

Holonyms ("French capital" is a part of...):

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

 Context examples 

The Committee on Space Research, which is based in the French capital of Paris, has been in charge of planetary defense since 1959.

(Mutated Terrestrial Bacteria That Return from Space Pose Threat to Life on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)