English

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Map showing the location of France (in red).

Alternative forms

• Fraunce (obsolete)

Proper noun

France ‎(plural Frances)

1. A country in Western Europe which borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain, is a member state of the European Union, and has a population of 62 million inhabitants. Official name: French Republic (République française).
   • 1998, Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore (ISBN 0791437108), 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:

     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.

2. A French surname​.

   Anatole France, a French poet, journalist, and novelist

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Translations

See also

• Appendix:Place names in France
• (countries of Europe) country of Europe; Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City ^{(Categories: en:Countries, en:Countries of Europe)}

References

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

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁɑ̃s/

Etymology

From Middle French France, from Old French France, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe.

Proper noun

France f

1. France (country)
2. A female given name
3. A French surname​.

Related terms

• François, Françoise (given names)

Derived terms

• français, Français
• Marie-France (given name)

Descendants

• Chinese: 法蘭西／法兰西 (Fǎlánxī)
• English: France
• Japanese: フランス (​Furansu)
• Korean: 프랑스 ‎(Peurangseu)
• Rade: Prăng

Anagrams

• Céfran

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French France.

Proper noun

France f

1. France (country of the Europe)

Descendants

• French: France

Norman

Alternative forms

• Fraunce (continental Normandy)

Etymology

From Old French France, from Medieval Latin or Late Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

France f

1. (Jersey) France

Old French

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

Alternative forms

• france (manuscript form)

Etymology

From Medieval Latin or Late Latin Francia, from Francī, the name of a Germanic tribe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /frãnt.sə/

Proper noun

France f ‎(nominative singular France)

1. France (country)

Related terms

• françois

Descendants

• English: France
• Middle French: France
  • French: France
• Norman: France
• Walloon: France

Esperanto

Adverb

france

1. in the French language
2. in the manner of a French person

Related terms

• franca ‎(“French”)
• Francio ‎(“France”)
• franco ‎(“a French person”)

Latin

Adjective

france

1. vocative masculine singular of francus

References

• france in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers