GARONNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Garonne mean? 

• GARONNE (noun)
  The noun GARONNE has 1 sense:

1. a river that rises in the Pyrenees and flows northwest to the Bay of Biscay

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARONNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A river that rises in the Pyrenees and flows northwest to the Bay of Biscay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Garonne; Garonne River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

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

 Context examples 

By my troth! master Ford, your friend here is in need of a cup of wine, for he hath drunk deeply of Garonne water.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There is the smoke from Bazas, on the further side of Garonne,” quoth he.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They had left Aiguillon and the Garonne far to the south, and rode now by the tranquil Lot, which curves blue and placid through a gently rolling country.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They have a hostel of their own now, somewhere on the banks of the Garonne, where the landlord drinks so much of the liquor that there is little left for the customers.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Alas for my poor sword which lies at the bottom of the Garonne!” said the squire.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By St. Martin of Tours! shouted the fat knight, his wrath all changed in an instant to joy, if it is not my dear little game rooster of the Garonne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In an instant he, too, was in the Garonne, striking out with powerful strokes for his late foeman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He brushed aside the frail weapon which was opposed to him, whirled up his great blade, sprang back to get the fairer sweep—and vanished into the waters of the Garonne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I should remember that coat-armor, seeing that it is but three days since I looked upon it in the lists by Garonne.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To their right stretched the blue Garonne, running swiftly seawards, with boats and barges dotted over its broad bosom.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)