NORMANDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Normandy mean? 

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

1. a former province of northwestern France on the English channel; divided into Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORMANDY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former province of northwestern France on the English channel; divided into Haute-Normandie and Basse-Normandie

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Normandie; Normandy

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Normandy"):

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

Meronyms (members of "Normandy"):

Norman (an inhabitant of Normandy)

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

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

 Context examples 

To pierce the great mountains of the south, to fight the tamers of the fiery Moors, to follow the greatest captain of the age, to find sunny cornfields and vineyards, when the marches of Picardy and Normandy were as rare and bleak as the Jedburgh forests—here was a golden prospect for a race of warriors.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The one on my right was a colossal affair by any standard—it was a factual imitation of some Hôtel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)