MARSEILLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marseilles mean? 

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

1. a port city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARSEILLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Marseille; Marseilles

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

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

 Context examples 

Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled- up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

In these cases, save for one rather intricate matter which has been referred to me from Marseilles, there is nothing which presents any features of interest.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Whether is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a fool's paradise at Marseilles—fevered with delusive bliss one hour—suffocating with the bitterest tears of remorse and shame the next—or to be a village-schoolmistress, free and honest, in a breezy mountain nook in the healthy heart of England?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

No, we just went to Monte Carlo and back. We went by way of Marseilles. We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started but we got gypped out of it all in two days in the private rooms. We had an awful time getting back, I can tell you. God, how I hated that town!

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)