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Definition of Florence

1. Noun. A city in central Italy on the Arno; provincial capital of Tuscany; center of the Italian Renaissance from 14th to 16th centuries.

2. Noun. A town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center.

Definition of Florence

1. n. An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value.

Definition of Florence

1. Proper noun. A province of Tuscany, Italy. ¹

2. Proper noun. The capital city of the province Florence. ¹

3. Proper noun. The capital city of the Deparment of Caquetá, Colombia. ¹

4. Proper noun. ( female given name) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Florence

1. florin [n -S] - See also: florin

Lexicographical Neighbors of Florence

Flipper Flips Fliss Flo Flo Ziegfeld Flobert Floberts Flocks Flodden Flodden Field

Flood's ligament Flora Florabama Floreal Florence (current term) Florence Nightingale Florence fennel Florence fennels Florence flask Florence flasks

Florentine Florentine iris Florentines Florenz Ziegfeld Florey Florey unit Florianópolis Florida

Literary usage of Florence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dombey and Son. by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
"Florence descended irom the coach, half doubting if it were, or could be the right ... Florence passed him as if she were in a dream, and hurried up-stairs. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Various constitutional checks were at first put upon him, but these he soon discarded, and openly used the title of Duke of Florence. ..."

3. Italy: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"See also 'The First Two Centuries of the History of Florence', by Prof. ... Florence, formerly the capital of the Grand-Duchy of Tuscany, in 1865-71 that of ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"In the great events of the years 1499-1512 Florence played but a subordinate part. When Louis XII was preparing his expedition against Milan, Florence held ..."

5. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"Florence. 1889. English translations by Sir Thomas Hoby, London, 1661, and several later ... Florence. 1530, 1550. Letture su lo Inferno dì Dante. Florence. ..."

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