Definitions

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

  • A historical region and former province of southern France on the Gulf of Lion. Named after the Romance language of its inhabitants, it was conquered by the Franks in the eighth century and incorporated into the French royal domain in 1271.

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  • noun A former province of France, in the south of the country.
  • adjective Pertaining to the Occitan language: Provençal, related to Catalan.

Etymologies

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French Languedoc, from langue d'oc ("the language of oc"), from Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari eloquentia, where he wrote in Latin: “nam alii oc, alii si, alii vero dicunt oil” (‘some say òc, others say sì, others say oïl’). Based on the Occitan word òc ("yes"), in contrast to Old French oïl (now French oui).

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Examples

  • Both Clare and Chris will be at the dreamiest holiday imaginable: discussing books in Languedoc next week.

    Some reading recommendations Maxine 2007

  • Both Clare and Chris will be at the dreamiest holiday imaginable: discussing books in Languedoc next week.

    Some reading recommendations Maxine 2007

  • Both Clare and Chris will be at the dreamiest holiday imaginable: discussing books in Languedoc next week.

    July 2007 Maxine 2007

  • He requested leave of absence, and went home for a time to his father's castle of Gozon, in Languedoc; and there he caused a model of the monster to be made.

    A Book of Golden Deeds 1864

  • Among these passengers was a young priest named Vincent de Paul, the son of a farmer in Languedoc, who had used his utmost endeavours to educate his son for the ministry, even selling the oxen from the plough to provide for the college expenses.

    A Book of Golden Deeds 1864

  • IN the time of Louis XII., the legate at Avignon being then a lord of the house of Amboise, nephew to the Legate of France, whose name was George, there was a lady in Languedoc who had an income of more than four thousand ducats.

    The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

  • The whole area south of Toulouse, called Languedoc, was the seat of the Cathars whose Gnostic beliefs made them the first target of the inquisition.

    Linda E. Savage: Spiritual Sex: True Partnership 2009

  • So one might approach KM Grant's Blue Flame with caution on reading that the flame is a mysterious rallying symbol for Occitania, the area now known as the Languedoc, in the south of France.

    Review of Blue Flame, by KM Grant 2008

  • Provincia Romana which encompassed Provence and Languedoc, that is a large part of Occitania.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • "We are keen Francophiles and love the relaxed lifestyle of the Languedoc, which is less hyper than Provence," Steven says.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

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