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Cote d'Azur

Cote d'Azur is the alternative form of Côte d'Azur.

Meaning of Côte d'Azur

Proper noun

the Côte d'Azur

  1. The French Riviera: the Mediterranean coastline of the southeast corner of France in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
    Synonyms:
    French Riviera

Noun

Cote d'Azur

  1. (informal) The warning track at the bottom of a velodrome, a non-racing surface representing the base of the banked oval course.

Origin of Cote d'Azur

From French Côte d'Azur, from côte (“coast”)+azur (“azure”) * (cycling): From being a light blue coloured margin; light blue being akin to azure and a margin being akin to a coast; also seeming like a band of water, reminiscent of the waters of the French Riviera.

Questions about Cote d'Azur

What does Cote d'Azur mean?
Cote d'Azur means the warning track at the bottom of a velodrome, a non-racing surface representing the base of the banked oval course.
What is Cote d'Azur the alternative form of?
Cote d'Azur is the alternative form of Côte d'Azur.
What part of speech is Cote d'Azur?
Cote d'Azur is a noun.

Words near Cote d'Azur in the dictionary

  1. cotchel
  2. cotchels
  3. cotches
  4. cotching
  5. cote
  6. Cote d'Azur
  7. Cote d'Ivoiran
  8. Cote d'Ivoire
  9. coteach
  10. coteacher
  11. coteachers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Cote d'Azur (page history and authors); Côte d'Azur (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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