Word.ws English Dictionary

Perche

Perche proper noun: a former province in northwestern France, corresponding to the modern departments of Orne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher and Sarthe.

Proper noun

Perche

  1. (historical) A former province in northwestern France, corresponding to the modern departments of Orne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher and Sarthe.

Origin of Perche

French

Questions about Perche

What does Perche mean?
Perche means a former province in northwestern France, corresponding to the modern departments of Orne, Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Loir-et-Cher and Sarthe.
What part of speech is Perche?
Perche is a proper noun.

Words near Perche in the dictionary

  1. perch stay
  2. perch stays
  3. percha
  4. perchable
  5. perchance
  6. Perche
  7. perched
  8. percher
  9. percheries
  10. percheron
  11. Percherons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Perche (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Perche.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/perche. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.