Lexic.us

Definition of Nantes

1. Noun. A port city in western France on the Loire estuary.

Definition of Nantes

1. Proper noun. A city in west France, in historical Brittany ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nantes

Literary usage of Nantes

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

1. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages by Hastings Rashdall, Pedro Beltrán, Solomon Northup, Robin George Collingwood (1895)
"TDM v VALENCE, nantes'. intended to take the place of Gre'noble as the University CH. VIII, of the Dauphine, the existence of any other University * J^_ ..."

2. Northern France from Belgium and the English Channel to the Loire, Excluding by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1899)
"nantes, see p. 246. The train crosses the town and skirts the Loire. ... 2'/2 M. Chantenay-sur-Loire, connected with nantes by tramway (p. 245). ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Thus the toils closed round the city ; everywhere, in Paris, in the insurgent army, in nantes itself, capitulation was hourly expected. ..."

4. Audubon, the Naturalist: A History of His Life and Time by Francis Hobart Herrick (1917)
"The ancient city of nantes, long famed for the beauty of its situation on the banks of a ... Since nantes formed a somber background to Audubon's youth, ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"He wrote Vie de la bienheureuse Françoise d'Amboise, duchesse de Bretagne et religieuse carmélite (2 vols., nantes, 1865), and Les Saints de l'église de ..."

Other Resources: