RHONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rhone mean? 

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

1. a major French river; flows into the Mediterranean near Marseilles

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RHONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A major French river; flows into the Mediterranean near Marseilles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Rhone; Rhone River

Context example:

the valley of the Rhone is famous for its vineyards

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

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

Schweiz; Suisse; Svizzera; Swiss Confederation; Switzerland (a landlocked federal republic in central Europe)

 Context examples 

Guided by a slight clue, I followed the windings of the Rhone, but vainly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For a charming week we wandered up the Valley of the Rhone, and then, branching off at Leuk, we made our way over the Gemmi Pass, still deep in snow, and so, by way of Interlaken, to Meiringen.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes, indeed, I felt a wish for happiness and thought with melancholy delight of my beloved cousin or longed, with a devouring maladie du pays, to see once more the blue lake and rapid Rhone, that had been so dear to me in early childhood; but my general state of feeling was a torpor in which a prison was as welcome a residence as the divinest scene in nature; and these fits were seldom interrupted but by paroxysms of anguish and despair.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)