PARIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paris mean? 

• PARIS (noun)
  The noun PARIS has 4 senses:

1. the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

2. sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae

3. (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War

4. a town in northeastern Texas

  Familiarity information: PARIS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of France; City of Light; French capital; Paris

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Paris"):

Eiffel Tower (a wrought iron tower 300 meters high that was constructed in Paris in 1889; for many years it was the tallest man-made structure)

Champs Elysees (a major avenue in Paris famous for elegant shops and cafes)

Ile-St-Louis (island in Paris on the Seine)

Right Bank (the region of Paris on the north bank of the Seine)

Orly (a southeastern suburb of Paris; site of an international airport serving Paris)

Clichy; Clichy-la-Garenne (a northwestern suburb of Paris; the residence of the Merovingian royalty in the 7th century)

Montmartre (the highest point in Paris; famous for its associations with many artists)

Latin Quarter; Left Bank (the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life)

Tuileries; Tuileries Palace (palace and royal residence built for Catherine de Medicis in 1564 and burned down in 1871; all that remains today are the formal gardens)

Tuileries; Tuileries Gardens (formal gardens next to the Louvre in Paris)

Paris University; Sorbonne; University of Paris (a university in Paris; intellectual center of France)

Louvre; Louvre Museum (an art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris)

Bastille (a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution)

Meronyms (members of "Paris"):

Parisian (a native or resident of Paris)

Parisienne (a female native or resident of Paris)

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

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

Derivation:

Parisian (of or relating to or characteristic of Paris or its inhabitants)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Paris; Paris

Hypernyms ("Paris" is a kind of...):

plant genus (a genus of plants)

Meronyms (members of "Paris"):

herb Paris; Paris quadrifolia (European herb with yellow-green flowers resembling and closely related to the trilliums; reputed to be poisonous)

Holonyms ("Paris" is a member of...):

family Liliaceae; Liliaceae; lily family (includes species sometimes divided among the following families: Alliaceae; Aloeaceae; Alstroemeriaceae; Aphyllanthaceae; Asparagaceae; Asphodelaceae; Colchicaceae; Convallariaceae; Hemerocallidaceae; Hostaceae; Hyacinthaceae; Melanthiaceae; Ruscaceae; Smilacaceae; Tecophilaeacea; Xanthorrhoeaceae)

Sense 3

Meaning:

(Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A town in northeastern Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

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

Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)

 Context examples 

The highest rainfall totals occurred along the Seine River east of Paris.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)

Alongside the thigh bone, volunteers with the National Museum of Natural History in Paris also uncovered a giant pelvis bone from the same layer of clay.

(140 Million-Year-Old Dinosaur’s Huge Bone Found in Southwest France, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

“You have just come home from Paris,” said I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We planned to come home with the Carrols, a month or more ago, but they suddenly changed their minds, and decided to pass another winter in Paris.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Sometimes he visited Paris for three months on end, but Mitton was left in charge of the Godolphin Street house.

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

We landed, and proceeded to Paris.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“But I pray you, good youth, to tell us whether you are a learned clerk, and, if so, whether you have studied at Oxenford or at Paris.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here’s Lumley, the ugly man. ‘L’homme laid’ they called him in Paris.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An attempt was made in Paris and failed.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘This is a directory of Paris,’ said he, ‘with the trades after the names of the people.’

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