Dictionary entry details
• FRENCH REGION (noun)
Meaning:
A geographical subdivision of France
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("French region" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Instance hyponyms:
Provence (a former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azur)
Ile-de-France (a region of north central France including Paris and the area around it)
Languedoc-Roussillon (a region in south central France; named after the medieval dialect of French that was spoken there)
Limousin (a region of central France west of the Auvergne mountains)
Lorraine; Lothringen (an eastern French region rich in iron-ore deposits)
Martinique (an island in the eastern Caribbean in the Windward Islands; administered as an overseas region of France)
Mayenne (a department of northwestern France in the Pays de la Loire region)
Midi-Pyrenees (a region in southwestern France)
Nord-Pas-de-Calais (a region in northeastern France)
Pays de la Loire (an agricultural region of western France on the Bay of Biscay)
Picardie; Picardy (a region of northern France on the English Channel)
Poitou; Poitou-Charentes (a low-lying region of west central France on the Bay of Biscay)
Rhone-Alpes (a mountainous region of eastern France drained by the Rhone and Saone and Isere rivers)
Haute-Normandie; Upper-Normandy (a division of Normandy)
Gascogne; Gascony (a region of southwestern France)
Franche-Comte (a former province of eastern France)
Cote d'Azur; French Riviera (the French part of the Riviera)
Alsace; Alsatia; Elsass (a region of northeastern France famous for its wines)
Anjou (a former province of western France in the Loire valley)
Aquitaine; Aquitania (a region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees)
Artois (a former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders))
Auvergne (a region in central France)
Basse-Normandie; Lower-Normandy (a division of Normandy)
Bourgogne; Burgundy (a former province of eastern France that is famous for its wines)
Breiz; Bretagne; Brittany (a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay)
Centre (a low-lying region in central France)
Champagne; Champagne-Ardenne (a region of northeastern France)
Corse; Corsica (a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte)
Holonyms ("French region" is a part of...):
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
