LAUSANNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lausanne mean? 

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

1. a city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial center

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAUSANNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in western Switzerland; cultural and commercial center

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)

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

Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)

 Context examples 

The second was devoted to the place which Lady Frances Carfax had sought when she left Lausanne.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I remained two days at Lausanne, in this painful state of mind.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Now, in collaboration with researchers from the University of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), they have extended the cultures to reveal a capacity of mouse stem cells to produce ‘pseudo-embryos’ that display some of the important characteristics of a normal mouse embryo.

(Scientists develop mouse ‘embryo-like structures’ with organisation along body’s major axes, University of Cambridge)

They had been floating about all the morning, from gloomy St. Gingolf to sunny Montreux, with the Alps of Savoy on one side, Mont St. Bernard and the Dent du Midi on the other, pretty Vevay in the valley, and Lausanne upon the hill beyond, a cloudless blue sky overhead, and the bluer lake below, dotted with the picturesque boats that look like white-winged gulls.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

She was very happy at Lausanne.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She feared him, or she would not have fled from Lausanne.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Like me, Marie viewed with deep distrust the stranger who had driven her mistress from Lausanne.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had heard that she was still unmarried, I found her at Lausanne and tried all I knew.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Two days later found me at the Hôtel National at Lausanne, where I received every courtesy at the hands of M. Moser, the well-known manager.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Hence the health-giving expedition to Lausanne.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)