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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'Azur
Familiarity information: PROVENCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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