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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce
Synonyms:
capital of France; City of Light; French capital; Paris
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Paris"):
Champs Elysees (a major avenue in Paris famous for elegant shops and cafes)
Ile-St-Louis (island in Paris on the Seine)
Right Bank (the region of Paris on the north bank of the Seine)
Orly (a southeastern suburb of Paris; site of an international airport serving Paris)
Clichy; Clichy-la-Garenne (a northwestern suburb of Paris; the residence of the Merovingian royalty in the 7th century)
Montmartre (the highest point in Paris; famous for its associations with many artists)
Latin Quarter; Left Bank (the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life)
Tuileries; Tuileries Palace (palace and royal residence built for Catherine de Medicis in 1564 and burned down in 1871; all that remains today are the formal gardens)
Tuileries; Tuileries Gardens (formal gardens next to the Louvre in Paris)
Paris University; Sorbonne; University of Paris (a university in Paris; intellectual center of France)
Louvre; Louvre Museum (an art museum that is a famous tourist attraction in Paris)
Eiffel Tower (a wrought iron tower 300 meters high that was constructed in Paris in 1889; for many years it was the tallest man-made structure)
Bastille (a fortress built in Paris in the 14th century and used as a prison in the 17th and 18th centuries; it was destroyed July 14, 1789 at the start of the French Revolution)
Meronyms (members of "Paris"):
Parisian (a native or resident of Paris)
Parisienne (a female native or resident of Paris)
Holonyms ("Paris" is a part of...):
France; French Republic (a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
Derivation:
Parisian (of or relating to or characteristic of Paris or its inhabitants)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A town in northeastern Texas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Paris" is a part of...):
Lone-Star State; Tex.; Texas; TX (the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)
Domain category:
Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae
Synonyms:
genus Paris; Paris
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Paris" is a kind of...):
plant genus (a genus of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Paris"):
herb Paris; Paris quadrifolia (European herb with yellow-green flowers resembling and closely related to the trilliums; reputed to be poisonous)
Holonyms ("Paris" is a member of...):
family Liliaceae; Liliaceae; lily family (includes species sometimes divided among the following families: Alliaceae; Aloeaceae; Alstroemeriaceae; Aphyllanthaceae; Asparagaceae; Asphodelaceae; Colchicaceae; Convallariaceae; Hemerocallidaceae; Hostaceae; Hyacinthaceae; Melanthiaceae; Ruscaceae; Smilacaceae; Tecophilaeacea; Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Context examples:
"Next Thanksgiving you'll have dinner with me in Delmonico's," he said cheerily; "or in London, or Paris, or anywhere you wish. I know it."
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
How about flying to Paris? Or in Italy, Venice, Sienna, or Rome? In the US, Carmel-by-the-Sea or Santa Barbara? In Spain, Seville, or in Canada, Victoria or Quebec City?
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
We left Charing Cross on the morning of the 12th, got to Paris the same night, and took the places secured for us in the Orient Express.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The Committee on Space Research, which is based in the French capital of Paris, has been in charge of planetary defense since 1959.
(Mutated Terrestrial Bacteria That Return from Space Pose Threat to Life on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Researchers observed the larvae in a transparent behavioral chamber, developed by the University of Miami's Claire Paris, under the environmental conditions they would encounter at sea.
(North Atlantic haddock use magnetic compass to guide them, National Science Foundation)
For ten long years I roved about, living first in one capital, then another: sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples, and Florence.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France; 1964.
(Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Auditory Verbal Learning Test Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
It is likely that we should have gone on to Paris to-morrow, only that this good gentleman, Mr. Holmes, came round to us this evening, though how he found us is more than I can think, and he showed us very clearly and kindly that I was wrong and that Frank was right, and that we should be putting ourselves in the wrong if we were so secret.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We know that children’s brains develop in response to exposure to sounds, so it should not be too surprising that even mild-to-moderate levels of hearing loss can lead to changes in the brain, says Dr Axelle Calcus, lead author of the paper, from PSL University, Paris.
(Mild-to-moderate hearing loss in children leads to changes in how brain processes sound, University of Cambridge)
These observations were made by a team led by Pierre Kervella from the Observatory of Paris in France who explained that the wavelength of the image is similar to that detected by heat cameras.
(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)
