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Lille

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th 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.

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  • proper noun A city in France, the capital of Nord-Pas-de-Calais
  • proper noun A village in Belgium, near Turnhout.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an industrial city in northern France near the Belgian border; was the medieval capital of Flanders

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Examples

  • LILLE - 'These are the three giant stomachs of Lille.'

    WN.com - Articles related to Bio-fuel growth raises concerns about forests 2009

  • After less than three months in Lille, fall semester ended and it was time to return home to the desert.

    mother-in-law 2010

  • 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.

    mother-in-law 2010

  • We will be in Lille and Normandy during next years World Cup, perhaps best not to mention my Irish granmdmother!

    retirer - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • By Badekar « Min Lille Blog on November 29, 2009 at 8: 13 pm

    KICKIT – Kick Your Shoes in a Different “Shoe Rack” 2009

  • I havebeen intrigued bythese flowers (though I cantalways identify them ...) ever since reading Le Petit Nicolas on an exchange program in Lille, France.

    mamie - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • 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.

    Integrating Sharia Law into European law Not a sheep 2008

  • 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.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Not a sheep 2008

  • Yan Deschaintre of the Memory Center in Lille, France, studied 891 dementia patients, including people with Alzheimer's.

    Heart disease treatments may slow Alzheimer's 2007

  • 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.

    Moniteur/Morning Chronicle 2007

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