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france | jamaica |

As proper nouns the difference between france and jamaica

is that france is a country in Western Europe which borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain, is a member state of the European Union, and has a population of 62 million inhabitants. Official name: French Republic (République française) while Jamaica is a particular country in the Caribbean.

As a noun jamaica is

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france

English

(wikipedia France)

Alternative forms

* Fraunce (obsolete)

Proper noun

(Frances)
  • A country in Western Europe which borders Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra and Spain, is a member state of the European Union and has a population of 62 million inhabitants. Official name: French Republic ().
  • * 1998 , Shanny Peer, France on Display: Peasants, Provincials, and Folklore (ISBN 0791437108), page 2:
    • Although scholars have offered different chronologies and causalities for the move toward modernity, most have resolved the paradox of the two Frances' by placing them in sequence: "diverse '''France''' gave way over time as modern centralized ' France gathered force."
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Hollande told cheering supporters in his rural fiefdom of Corrèze in south-west France' that he was best-placed to lead ' France towards change, saying the vote marked a "rejection" of Sarkozy and a "sanction" against his five years in office.}}
    • , a French poet, journalist, and novelist

    Related terms

    * Franco- * francophobe * Francophone * Frankland * French * Frenchman * New France * Tour de France

    See also

    * *

    References

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    jamaica

    English

    (wikipedia Jamaica)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * Jomayca (Jamaican English)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A particular country in the Caribbean.
  • The island comprising most of that country.
    • Derived terms
    * Jamaica ginger * Jamaican * Jamaica pepper * Jamaica rose

    See also

    * Kingston *

    Etymology 2

    After Kuchamakin, a (Massachusett) leader; from (etyl). Jamaica Plain Historical Society - Native Americans in Jamaica Plain

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .

    • Etymology 3

    From the (etyl) word for “beaver”. Compare next etymology.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , a town in (Vermont).

    • Etymology 4

    Originally (Jameco), from the (etyl) word for “beaver”. Compare previous etymology.

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , a neighborhood in (Queens), (New York City).

    • References

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