VERSAILLES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Versailles mean? 

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

1. a city in north central France near Paris; site of the Palace of Versailles that was built by Louis XIV in the 17th century

2. a palace built in the 17th century for Louis XIV southwest of Paris near the city of Versailles

  Familiarity information: VERSAILLES used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VERSAILLES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in north central France near Paris; site of the Palace of Versailles that was built by Louis XIV in the 17th century

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

A palace built in the 17th century for Louis XIV southwest of Paris near the city of Versailles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

Palace of Versailles; Versailles

Instance hypernyms:

palace (official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign))

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

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

 Context examples 

The veins and arteries spouted up such a prodigious quantity of blood, and so high in the air, that the great jet d’eau at Versailles was not equal to it for the time it lasted: and the head, when it fell on the scaffold floor, gave such a bounce as made me start, although I was at least half an English mile distant.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene—his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of Town Tattle over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)