FRENCH REGION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does French region mean? 

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

1. a geographical subdivision of France

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRENCH REGION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A geographical subdivision of France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("French region" is a kind of...):

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Instance hyponyms:

Gascogne; Gascony (a region of southwestern France)

Provence (a former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azur)

Rhone-Alpes (a mountainous region of eastern France drained by the Rhone and Saone and Isere rivers)

Poitou; Poitou-Charentes (a low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay)

Picardie; Picardy (a region of northern France on the English Channel)

Pays de la Loire (an agricultural region of western France on the Bay of Biscay)

Nord-Pas-de-Calais (a region in northeastern France)

Midi-Pyrenees (a region in southwestern France)

Mayenne (a department of northwestern France in the Pays de la Loire region)

Martinique (an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France)

Lorraine; Lothringen (an eastern French region rich in iron-ore deposits)

Limousin (a region of central France to the west of the Auvergne mountains)

Languedoc-Roussillon (a region in south central France; named after the medieval dialect of French that was spoken there)

Ile-de-France (a region of north central France including Paris and the area around it)

Haute-Normandie; Upper-Normandy (a division of Normandy)

Franche-Comte (a former province of eastern France)

Corse; Corsica (a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte)

Champagne; Champagne-Ardenne (a region of northeastern France)

Centre (a low-lying region in central France)

Breiz; Bretagne; Brittany (a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay)

Bourgogne; Burgundy (a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines)

Basse-Normandie; Lower-Normandy (a division of Normandy)

Auvergne (a region in central France)

Artois (a former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders))

Aquitaine; Aquitania (a region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees)

Anjou (a former province of western France in the Loire valley)

Alsace; Alsatia; Elsass (a region of northeastern France famous for its wines)

Cote d'Azur; French Riviera (the French part of the Riviera)

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

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