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

  • The longest river of France, rising in the Cévennes and flowing about 1,015 km (630 mi) north, northwest, and west to the Bay of Biscay.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun a French river which flows into the North Atlantic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun One of the départements of Rhône-Alpes, France
  • proper noun A river of France

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

  • noun the longest French river; rises in the Massif Central and flows north and west to the Atlantic Ocean

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