• (country):Fraunce(obsolete)

FromMiddle EnglishFrance, fromOld FrenchFrance, fromLatinFrancia, fromFrancī, the name of a Germanic tribe, of unclear (butProto-Germanic) origin.^[1] Believed to be most likely fromFrankish*Frankō(“a Frank”), fromProto-Germanic*frankô(“javelin”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*preng-(“pole, stalk”). CompareFrank. Displaced nativeOld EnglishFrancland.

• (UK)IPA^(key):/fɹɑːns/,/fɹæns/
• (US)IPA^(key):/fɹæns/

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• Rhymes:-ɑːns,-æns

France (usuallyuncountable,pluralFrances)

2. A country inWestern Europe. Official name:French Republic. Capital and largest city:Paris.
   • 1837,George Sand, translated by Stanley Young,Mauprat‎^[1], Cassandra Editions, published1977,→ISBN, page237:

     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 inFrance.

   • 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 twoFrances by placing them in sequence: "diverseFrance gave way over time as modern centralizedFrance gathered force."

   • 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, inThe Guardian‎^[2]:

     Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-westFrance that he was best-placed to leadFrance towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.

3. Asurname 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'”, inWNWO-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 ledFrance to believe everything was fine when it wasn’t.

   1. Anatole France, a French poet, journalist, and novelist.
4. Alternative form ofFrances;A femalegiven name;feminine ofFrancis.

• (country):European Union,Europe

•  France on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
•  France on Wikiquote.Wikiquote
•  France on Wikivoyage.Wikivoyage
•  Category:France on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Inherited fromLate LatinFrancia.

France f

1. France (a country inWestern Europe)

Inherited fromMiddle FrenchFrance, fromOld FrenchFrance, fromLate LatinFrancia, fromFrancī, the name of aGermanic tribe.Doublet ofFrancie.

• (France)IPA^(key):/fʁɑ̃s/
  • (Provence)IPA^(key):/fʁãⁿsə/

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• (Quebec)IPA^(key):/fʁãs/

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• (Louisiana)IPA^(key):/fɾɑ̃s/
• Rhymes:-ɑ̃s

France f

1. France (a country inWestern Europe)
2. a femalegiven name
3. a Frenchsurname

• faire une carte de France
• françafricain
• Françafrique
• français,Français
• Marie-France (given name)
• melon de France
• vieille France

• François,Françoise (given names)

• Céfran

France f

1. France (a country inWestern Europe)

• francês

FromOld FrenchFrance.

• IPA^(key):/ˈfrãsə/

France f

1. France (a country inWestern Europe)

• French:France (see there for further descendants)
• → Middle English:Fraunce,France
  • English:France (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots:Fraunce
• → Breton:Frañs

• Fraunce(continental Normandy)

FromOld FrenchFrance, fromLate LatinFrancia.

• Audio(Jersey):

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France f

1. (Jersey)France (a country inWestern Europe)

• france(manuscript form)

Inherited fromLate LatinFrancia.

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

France f (nominative singularFrance)

1. France (a country inWestern Europe)

• françois

• Middle French:France
  • French:France (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle English:Fraunce,France
    • English:France (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots:Fraunce
  • → Breton:Frañs
• Norman:France,Fraunce(continental Normandy)
• Picard:France
• Walloon:France