ORLEANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Orleans mean? 

• ORLEANS (noun)
  The noun ORLEANS has 2 senses:

1. a city on the Loire river in north central France; site of the siege of Orleans by the English (1428-1429)

2. a long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429

  Familiarity information: ORLEANS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORLEANS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city on the Loire river in north central France; site of the siege of Orleans by the English (1428-1429)

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 ("Orleans" is a part of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A long siege of Orleans by the English was relieved by Joan of Arc in 1429

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

Orleans; siege of Orleans

Instance hypernyms:

beleaguering; besieging; military blockade; siege (the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack)

Domain region:

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

 Context examples 

I’ve been in orspital arf my bleedin’ life. I’ve ’ad the fever in Aspinwall, in ’Avana, in New Orleans.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If greenhouse gas concentrations remain on their current trajectory, melting ice from Greenland alone could contribute as much as 24 feet to global sea level rise by the year 3000, which would place much of San Francisco, Los Angeles, New Orleans and other coastal cities underwater.

(New research shows an iceless Greenland may be in the future, National Science Foundation)

She had a debut after the Armistice, and in February she was presumably engaged to a man from New Orleans.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)