Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A city of northern France north-northeast of Paris near the Belgian border. Founded c. 1030, it was the medieval capital of Flanders and is now a commercial, cultural, and manufacturing center. Population: 225,000.
Wiktionary
- n. A city in France, the capital of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
- n. A village in Belgium, near Turnhout.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border; was the medieval capital of Flanders
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“LILLE - 'These are the three giant stomachs of Lille.”
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“We will be in Lille and Normandy during next years World Cup, perhaps best not to mention my Irish granmdmother!”
“I havebeen intrigued bythese flowers (though I cantalways identify them ...) ever since reading Le Petit Nicolas on an exchange program in Lille, France.”
“After less than three months in Lille, fall semester ended and it was time to return home to the desert.”
“In exchange for college credit, I wrote about French culture as I had experienced it in Lille and in my new town, Aix, where I had moved.”
“By Badekar « Min Lille Blog on November 29, 2009 at 8: 13 pm”
“FRANCE HAS reacted with shock and outrage to a decision by the high court in Lille to annul a marriage because the bride was not a virgin.”
“Yan Deschaintre of the Memory Center in Lille, France, studied 891 dementia patients, including people with Alzheimer's.”
“You will shudder with horror when you know that those who accuse the government of placing at the head of the armed forces conspirators and nobles, are those who have forced our hand to place there the only nobles who remain there; and Lavallette, conspirator at Lille, is a proof of it.”
“(In my college semester in Lille we had to share the bathroom with les garçons*).”
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