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BRITTANY

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Brittany mean?

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

1. a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay

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

Dictionary entry details

• BRITTANY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Breiz; Bretagne; Brittany

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

Meronyms (members of "Brittany"):

Breton (a native or inhabitant of Brittany (especially one who speaks the Breton language))

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

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

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