Versailles
//vɚˈsaɪ// name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.
- 2 A town and county seat of Ripley County, Indiana, United States.
- 3 A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
- 4 The Palace of Versailles.
- 5 A home rule city and county seat of Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.
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- 6 The Treaty of Versailles (1919). historical
- 7 A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Missouri, United States.
Example
More examples"My husband and I will travel to Versailles in the spring to watch an opera."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Borrowed from French Versailles, of uncertain Latin origin (see French entry below), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn around”).
Etymology 2
From etymology 1.
Etymology 3
Named by Vietnamese American residents in the 1970s after the Versailles Arms apartment complex in which they first settled.
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