CITY OF LIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does City of Light mean? 

• CITY OF LIGHT (noun)
  The noun CITY OF LIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

  Familiarity information: CITY OF LIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CITY OF LIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of France; City of Light; French capital; Paris

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "City of Light"):

Eiffel Tower (a wrought iron tower 300 meters high that was constructed in Paris in 1889; for many years it was the tallest man-made structure)

Champs Elysees (a major avenue in Paris famous for elegant shops and cafes)

Ile-St-Louis (island in Paris on the Seine)

Right Bank (the region of Paris on the north bank of the Seine)

Orly (a southeastern suburb of Paris; site of an international airport serving Paris)

Clichy; Clichy-la-Garenne (a northwestern suburb of Paris; the residence of the Merovingian royalty in the 7th century)

Montmartre (the highest point in Paris; famous for its associations with many artists)

Latin Quarter; Left Bank (the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life)

Tuileries; Tuileries Palace (palace and royal residence built for Catherine de Medicis in 1564 and burned down in 1871; all that remains today are the formal gardens)

Tuileries; Tuileries Gardens (formal gardens next to the Louvre in Paris)

Paris University; Sorbonne; University of Paris (a university in Paris; intellectual center of France)

Louvre; Louvre Museum (an art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris)

Bastille (a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution)

Meronyms (members of "City of Light"):

Parisian (a native or resident of Paris)

Parisienne (a female native or resident of Paris)

Holonyms ("City of Light" is a part of...):

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