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PROVENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Provence mean? 

PROVENCE (noun)
  The noun PROVENCE has 1 sense:

1. a former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azurplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PROVENCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azur

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

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

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


 Context examples 


Never did choice or dainty ditty of Provence or Languedoc sound more sweetly in the ears than did the rough-tongued Saxon to the six who strained their ears from the blazing keep.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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