LYONNAIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lyonnais mean? 

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

1. a former province of east central France; now administered by Rhone-Alpes

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LYONNAIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former province of east central France; now administered by Rhone-Alpes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Lyonnais"):

Lyon; Lyons (a city in east-central France on the Rhone River; a principal producer of silk and rayon)

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

Rhone-Alpes (a mountainous region of eastern France drained by the Rhone and Saone and Isere rivers)

 Context examples 

It was cashed at the Crédit Lyonnais at Montpellier less than three weeks ago.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)