Definition of Loire

1. Noun. The longest French river; rises in the Massif Central and flows north and west to the Atlantic Ocean.

Exact synonyms: Loire River
Group relationships: France, French Republic
Generic synonyms: River

Definition of Loire

1. Proper noun. One of the départements of Rhône-Alpes, France ¹

2. Proper noun. A river of France ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loire

Loffler's syndrome
Lofortyx
Lofortyx californicus
Lofoten
Lofty
Logan
Logania
Loganiaceae
Loglan
Logo
Logos
Logres
Logroño
Lohlein-Baehr lesion
Lohmann reaction
Loire (current term)
Loire-Atlantique
Loire River
Loire Vally
Loiret
Lois
Loiseleuria
Loiseleuria procumbens
Loja
Lojban
Lojbanist
Lojbanists
Lojbanize
Lok
Lokasenna

Literary usage of Loire

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

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"Le lyonnais, dans le Rhône, l'Ain et la Saône-et-Loire. Sir Isaac Newton was an only and posthumous child ; he could therefore have had no very near kindred ..."

2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Loire, the longest river of France, rising in the Gerbier de Jonc in the ... After a course of 18 m. in Ardèche it enters Häute-Loire, in which it follows a ..."

3. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"This was at Coueron, a small commune in the arron- dissement of Saint-Nazaire, on the right bank of the Loire, nine miles west of Nantes ..."

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