MARSEILLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Marseille mean? 

• MARSEILLE (noun)
  The noun MARSEILLE has 2 senses:

1. a port city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean

2. strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedspreads

  Familiarity information: MARSEILLE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARSEILLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A port city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Marseille; Marseilles

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

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

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Strong cotton fabric with a raised pattern; used for bedspreads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("marseille" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

An international team led by researchers at the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université) has determined the planet’s dimensions and properties of its surface, which actually favor its habitability.

(Planet Orbiting Nearest Star Could be Habitable, NASA)

Led overall by researchers at Aix-Marseille Université in France, David Armstrong and colleagues at the University of Warwick’s Astronomy and Astrophysics Group independently detected the planet in the first instance, alongside researchers at the Universidade do Porto.

(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Located in the COSMOS field in the constellation of Sextans (The Sextant), Hyperion was identified by analysing the vast amount of data obtained from the VIMOS Ultra-deep Survey led by Olivier Le Fèvre (Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, CNES).

(Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found, ESO)