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FRANCHE-COMTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Franche-Comte mean? 

FRANCHE-COMTE (noun)
  The noun FRANCHE-COMTE has 1 sense:

1. a former province of eastern Franceplay

  Familiarity information: FRANCHE-COMTE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FRANCHE-COMTE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A former province of eastern France

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

French region (a geographical subdivision of France)

Holonyms ("Franche-Comte" is a part of...):

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


 Context examples 


Those regions where the heaviest rainfall were found include Nord-pas-de-calais, Picardy, Isle of France – where Paris is located, Champagne-Ardenne, Burgundy, Centre and Franche-Comte.

(France's Flooding Rains Examined by NASA’s IMERG, NASA)



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