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Saintes

Saintes proper noun: a city in Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southeastern France, the former capital of the Saintonge province.

Proper noun

Saintes

  1. A city in Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southeastern France, the former capital of the Saintonge province.
  2. A French Catholic diocese named after the above, its see.
  3. A French arrondissement named after the above, its capital.
  4. (in plural) A small French Caribbean island chain, the Îles des Saintes, in the Leeward Islands, a dependency of the department of Guadeloupe.

Origin of Saintes

From French Saintes.

Questions about Saintes

What does Saintes mean?
Saintes means a city in Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, southeastern France, the former capital of the Saintonge province.
What part of speech is Saintes?
Saintes is a proper noun.

Words near Saintes in the dictionary

  1. Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois
  2. Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine
  3. Sainte-Sophie
  4. Sainte-Thérèse
  5. sainted
  6. Saintes
  7. saintess
  8. saintesses
  9. Saintfield
  10. saintfoin
  11. saintfoins

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