Dieppe
Syllables: Di·eppe/diˈɛp/
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Early/diːp/
Dieppe proper noun: a coastal town in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
Proper noun
Dieppe
- A coastal town in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
- Two years after ordering the mass internment of German refugees at the start of the second world war, the British government put a small, elite group of them in military uniforms and sent them on a secret cloak-and-dagger mission to occupied Dieppe to snatch an Enigma coding machine from under the...2021 May 9, Andrew Gumbel, “Raid on Dieppe masked secret mission to steal Nazis’ Enigma machine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- A city in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Synonyms:
- Leger Corner
Dieppe meaning in Marathi
Dieppe in Marathi
- town in Normandy, France
- डिएप ḍiep
- city in New Brunswick, Canada
- डिएप ḍiep
Synonyms of Dieppe
- Leger Corner
Origin of Dieppe
Inherited from Middle English Depe, from Middle French Diepe; the modern pronunciation is a refashioning after modern French Dieppe. The city in New Brunswick was named in memory of the Canadian soldiers who fell during the Dieppe Raid in 1942.
Words that rhyme with Dieppe
Questions about Dieppe
- What does Dieppe mean?
- Dieppe means a coastal town in Seine-Maritime department, Normandy, France.
- What is Dieppe in Marathi?
- Dieppe in Marathi is डिएप (ḍiep). See Dieppe meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is Dieppe?
- Dieppe is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Dieppe?
- Dieppe is pronounced /diˈɛp/.
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