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Definition of City of light
1. Noun. The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce.
Terms within: Bastille, Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Louvre Museum, Paris University, Sorbonne, University Of Paris, Tuileries, Tuileries Gardens, Tuileries, Tuileries Palace, Latin Quarter, Left Bank, Montmartre, Clichy, Clichy-la-garenne, Orly, Right Bank, Ile-st-louis, Champs Elysees
Generic synonyms: National Capital
Group relationships: France, French Republic
Member holonyms: Parisian, Parisienne
Derivative terms: Parisian
Lexicographical Neighbors of City Of Light
Literary usage of City of light
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems and Inscriptions: English Poetry of To-day Against an American Background by Richard Watson Gilder, Gilliss Press, Cornelius Weygandt (1901)
"... THE city of light THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION WHAT shall we name it As is our
bounden duty,— This new, swift-builded fairy city of Beauty,— What name ..."
2. Historical Memoirs of the City of Armagh by James Stuart (1900)
"THE city of light AND LEARNING Foundation of the Great School of Armagh—Death of St.
Patrick's sister, Lupita—The Three Orders of Irish Saints—Death of St. ..."
3. Principles of Physics, Or, Natural Philosophy: Designed for the Use of by Benjamin Silliman (1866)
"Experiments have been made with the same apparatus to determine the TC»- city of
light in liquids as compared with the velocity in air. For this a tube, AB, ..."
4. Convention by National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, University of Georgia College of Agriculture, University of Georgia Dept. of Food Science (1905)
"To-day it is "The City of Light." Mayor Speer, who is in this room, is in favor
of "the city of light." The proposition was laid before him, he was told the ..."
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