English Explanatory Dictionary

Florence

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A city and comune, the capital of the Metropolitan City of Florence and the region of Tuscany, Italy.
  2. A metropolitan city of Tuscany, established in 2015; in full, the Metropolitan City of Florence.
  3. A former province of Tuscany.
  4. A female given name from Latin.
  5. A community in Cape Breton Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada.
  6. A suburb of the city of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England.
  7. A number of places in the United States:
  8. A city, the county seat of Lauderdale County, Alabama.
  9. A town, the county seat of Pinal County, Arizona.
  10. An unincorporated community in Los Angeles County, California.
  11. A statutory city in Fremont County, Colorado.
  12. A village in Pike County, Illinois.
noun
  1. An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III, coined by Florentines and worth six shillings sterling.
  2. A kind of silk fabric; florentine.
name
  1. A male given name from Latin.

Pronunciation

/ˈflɒɹəns/ /ˈfloɹəns/ En-us-Florence.ogg /ˈflɑɹɪns/ /ˈflɔɹəns/ [ˈflɔ̟ɹəns]

Word forms

Florence Florences

Etymology

Borrowed from French Florence f, from Latin Flōrentia (as a given name, a feminine form of Flōrentius), from flōrens (“flowering, flourishing”), from flōs (“flower”), connected with English bloom and blossom. Doublet of Firenze. The female given name gained popularity from Florence Nightingale who was born in the Tuscan city.

Related words

Firenze

Derived words

Flo Florence County Florence fennel Florence flask Florence Nightingale Florentine Flossie St Florence

Translations

Albanian: Firencia Albanian: Firence Amharic: ፍሎረንስ Arabic: فْلُورَنْسَا Arabic: فْلُورِنْسَا Armenian: Ֆլորենցիա Azerbaijani: Florensiya Basque: Florentzia Belarusian: Фларэ́нцыя Belarusian: Флярэ́нцыя Bengali: ফ্লোরেন্স Bulgarian: Флоре́нция Catalan: Florència Chinese Cantonese: 翡冷翠 Chinese Cantonese: 佛羅倫斯 /佛罗伦斯 Hakka Chinese: 佛羅倫薩 /佛罗伦萨 Chinese Mandarin: 佛羅倫薩 /佛罗伦萨 Corsican: Firenze Corsican: Fiurenza Czech: Florencie Danish: Firenze Dutch: Florence Emilian: Fiuränza Esperanto: Florenco Finnish: Firenze French: Florence West-Frisian: Florâns Galician: Florencia Georgian: ფლორენცია German: Florenz Greek: Φλωρεντία Hebrew: פִירֶנְצֶה Hindi: फ़्लोरेन्स Hungarian: Firenze Icelandic: Flórens Icelandic: Fagurborg Irish: Flórans Italian: Firenze Italian: Fiorenza Japanese: フィレンツェ Japanese: フローレンス Kapampangan: Plorensya Karakalpak: Florenciya Korean: 피렌체 Latin: Flōrentia Latvian: Florence Ligurian: Firense Lithuanian: Florencija
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