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Vichy

/ˈviːʃi/

Vichy proper noun: a town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II. Also the ellipsis of Vichy water.

Proper noun

Vichy

  1. A town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II.
    1. (figuratively, historical, metonymically) Vichy France; the Vichy French government.

Noun

Vichy

  1. (attributive, derogatory) Labelling a regime that is traitorous or established in cooperation with a foreign or hostile power, especially in administration of occupied territory.
    • More recently, a succession of novels, including Robert Harris's Fatherland, Resistance by Owen Sheers and CJ Sansom's Dominion – which imagines a Vichy Britain in 1952 ruled by Lord Beaverbrook and Oswald Mosley – have explored the same theme.2013 December 25, Martin Kettle, “What if the Germans had won the first world war?”, in The Guardian
    • In 1940, having shunned German overtures for him to serve in the government of a future “Vichy Russia,” he fled to southern France to escape the Nazi invasion.2015, Jonathan D. Smele, “Miliukov, Pavel Nikolaevich”, in Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916–1926, →ISBN, page 755

Also used as

Vichy is also the ellipsis of Vichy water.

Vichy meaning in Marathi and Arabic

Vichy in Marathi

town
व्हिशी vhiśī

Vichy in Arabic

town
فِيشِي fīšī

Origin of Vichy

From French Vichy, from Occitan Vichèi, phonetically evolved from the Latin place name Vippiacus, itself named after an agricultural field belonging to a farmer named Vippius. An alternate theory attributes the name to the Latin vicus calidus, meaning "warm settlement."

From Vichy France.

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Questions about Vichy

What does Vichy mean?
Vichy means a town in Allier department, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, France; the capital of Vichy France during World War II.
What is Vichy in Marathi?
Vichy in Marathi is व्हिशी (vhiśī). See Vichy meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is Vichy?
Vichy can be a proper noun or a noun.
How do you pronounce Vichy?
Vichy is pronounced /ˈviːʃi/.

Words near Vichy in the dictionary

  1. vichaunceller
  2. Vichian
  3. Vichitravirya
  4. Vichuga
  5. Vichuquén
  6. Vichy
  7. Vichy France
  8. Vichy French
  9. Vichy shower
  10. Vichy showers
  11. Vichy water

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