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Versailles.

A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.

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Meaning & usage

name/vɛəˈsaɪ/UK/vɚˈsaɪ/US/vɚˈzaɪ/US
  1. A city, suburb of Paris and capital of Yvelines department, Île-de-France, and the former capital of France.

  2. The Palace of Versailles.

  3. The Treaty of Versailles (1919).

    historical
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French Versailles, of uncertain Latin origin (see French entry below), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn around”).

name/vərˈseɪlz/US
  1. A town and county seat of Ripley County, Indiana, United States.

  2. A home rule city and county seat of Woodford County, Kentucky, United States.

  3. A city, the county seat of Morgan County, Missouri, United States.

Where this word comes from

From etymology 1.

name/vəɹˈsaɪ/US
  1. A neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Where this word comes from

Named by Vietnamese American residents in the 1970s after the Versailles Arms apartment complex in which they first settled.

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