france

Noun france has 2 senses

• france(n = noun.location) french republic - a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe;
has parts: maginot line, palace of versailles, versailles, capital of france, city of light, french capital, paris, avignon, bordeaux, brest, calais, cannes, chablis, chartres, cherbourg, dijon, grenoble, le havre, lille, lyon, lyons, marseille, marseilles, nancy, nantes, nice, orleans, reims, rheims, toulon, toulouse, tours, valenciennes, versailles, vichy, vienne, riviera, french region, alsace, alsatia, elsass, anjou, aquitaine, aquitania, artois, auvergne, bourgogne, burgundy, breiz, bretagne, brittany, centre, champagne, champagne-ardenne, corse, corsica, franche-comte, gascogne, gascony, ile-de-france, languedoc-roussillon, limousin, lorraine, lothringen, midi, midi-pyrenees, nord-pas-de-calais, pays de la loire, picardie, picardy, poitou, poitou-charentes, rhone-alpes, normandie, normandy, orleanais, provence, savoy, alps, the alps, garonne, garonne river, isere, isere river, lake geneva, lake leman, lascaux, loire, loire river, loire valley, massif central, meuse, meuse river, mont blanc, monte bianco, pyrenees, rhein, rhine, rhine river, rhone, rhone river, sambre, sambre river, saone, saone river, scheldt, scheldt river, seine, seine river
is a member of common market, ec, eec, eu, europe, european community, european economic community, european union, nato, north atlantic treaty organization
is a kind of european country, european nation
is a part of europe

• france(n = noun.person) anatole france, jacques anatole francois thibault - French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924);
is a kind of author, writer