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France

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See also: france, françé, Françé, and Francë

English

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The Flag of France
Map showing all of France, including overseas regions and collectivities
Map showing the location of France (sense 1.1) in red.

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Etymology

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From Middle English France, from Old French France, from Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe, of unclear (but Proto-Germanic) origin.[1] Believed to be most likely from Frankish *Frankō (“a Frank”), from Proto-Germanic *frankô (“javelin”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preng- (“pole, stalk”). Compare Frank. Displaced native Old English Francland (see modern Frankland).

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France (usually uncountable, plural Frances)

  2. A country located primarily in Western Europe. Official name: French Republic. Capital and largest city: Paris.
    • 1837, George Sand, translated by Stanley Young, Mauprat‎[1], Cassandra Editions, published 1977, →ISBN, page 237:
      For a long time the dormouse and polecat had seemed to him overfeeble enemies for his restless valour, even as the granary floor seemed to afford too narrow a field. Every day he read the papers of the previous day in the servants' hall of the houses he visited, and it appeared to him that this war in America, which was hailed as the awakening of the spirit of liberty and justice in the New World, ought to produce a revolution in France.
    • 1998, Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore, →ISBN, page 2:
      Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances by placing them in sequence: "diverse France gave way over time as modern centralized France gathered force."
    • 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in The Guardian‎[2]:
      Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France that he was best-placed to lead France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.
    1. In particular, metropolitan France, the part of France which is in Europe.
      • 2020 October 3, Daurius Figueira, Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in the Second Decade of the 21st Century […] , AHTLE FIGUEIRA, →ISBN, page 259:
        La1ere of June 6, 2018 published a report containing the official discourse […] on the use of mules and swallowers to smuggle cocaine from French Guiana to France.
      • 2022 June 8, Ruxandra Trandafoiu, Border Crossings and Mobilities on Screen, Routledge, →ISBN:
        […] the film Mercenary / Mercenaire, a film made somewhat unique among French immigrant narratives for focusing on the experiences of Pacific Islanders making their way from French Polynesia to France.
  3. A surname from French, famously held by—
    • 2022 March 29, Chris Papst, “From 0.13 GPA to future graduate, mom of Baltimore student says 'We did it'”, in WNWO-TV‎[3]:
      He had a 0.13 GPA and was still in ninth grade. With a class rank of 62 out of 120, he was being promoted through the course levels, which led France to believe everything was fine when it wasn’t.
    1. Anatole France, a French poet, journalist, and novelist.
  4. Alternative form of Frances; A female given name; feminine of Francis.

Meronyms

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Divisions of France in English (layout · text)
Regions: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes · Bourgogne-Franche-Comté · Brittany · Centre-Val de Loire · Corsica · French Guiana · Grand Est · Guadeloupe · Hauts-de-France · Île-de-France · Martinique · Mayotte · Normandy · Nouvelle-Aquitaine · Occitania · Pays de la Loire · Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur · Réunion
Overseas collectivities: French Polynesia · Saint Barthélemy · Saint Martin · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · Wallis and Futuna
Sui generis collectivity: New Caledonia
Overseas territory: French Southern and Antarctic Lands

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Descendants

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Translations

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See also

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countries in Europe (appendix)edit

References

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  1. ^ A. C. Murray, From Roman to Merovingian Gaul: A Reader. Broadview Press Ltd, 2000. p. 1.

Further reading

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Franco-Provençal

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Franco-Provençal Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia frp

Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin Francia.

Proper noun

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France f

  1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)

French

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French Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia fr

Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French France, from Old French France, from Late Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe. Doublet of Francie.

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France f (plural Frances)

  1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)
  2. a female given name
  3. a French surname

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countries in Europe: pays de l'Europe (appendix)edit

Anagrams

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Friulian

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Proper noun

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France f

  1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)
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Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French France.

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France f

  1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)

Descendants

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Norman

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Norman Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nrf

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old French France, from Late Latin Francia.

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France f

  1. (Jersey) France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)

Old French

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Excerpt from the Oxford manuscript of The Song of Roland showing 'francs' and 'france' without capital letters.

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Etymology

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Inherited from Late Latin Francia.

Pronunciation

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  • (classical) IPA(key): /ˈfɾant͡sə/
  • (late) IPA(key): /ˈfɾansə/

Proper noun

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France f (nominative singular France)

  1. France (a country located primarily in Western Europe)
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