TOULON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Toulon mean? 

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

1. a port city and naval base in southeastern France on the Mediterranean coast

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOULON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city and naval base in southeastern France on the Mediterranean coast

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)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

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

 Context examples 

You can remember how it was in the winter months before Toulon, Stone, when we had neither firing, wine, beef, pork, nor flour aboard the ships, nor a spare piece of rope, canvas, or twine.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Did ever a vessel come out of Toulon as my 38-gun frigate did from Plymouth last year, with her masts rolling about until her shrouds were like iron bars on one side and hanging in festoons upon the other?

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Straightway my uncle began to question him about the sea service, and for the whole meal my father was telling him of the Nile and of the Toulon blockade, and the siege of Genoa, and all that he had seen and done.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)