English Explanatory Dictionary

Doubs

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Besançon.
  2. A left tributary of the Saône, running through the cantons of Neuchâtel and Jura, Switzerland and the departments of Doubs, Jura and Saône-et-Loire, France.

Pronunciation

/duː/

Word forms

Doubs

Etymology

From French Doubs, from Gaulish, from the root of Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”).

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