Arrondissement vs Saintes - What's the difference?

arrondissement | saintes |


As a noun arrondissement

is an administrative division in some French- or Dutch-speaking countries.

As a proper noun Saintes is

a city in the southeastern French département Charente-Maritime, the former capital of the Saintonge province.

arrondissement

English

(wikipedia arrondissement)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An administrative division in some French- or Dutch-speaking countries
  • (Canada) A borough, a submunicipal administrative division

    • saintes

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A city in the southeastern French département Charente-Maritime, the former capital of the Saintonge province.
  • A French Catholic diocese named after the above, its see.
  • A French arrondissement named after the above, its capital.
  • (in the plural) A small French Caribbean island chain in the Leeward Islands, a dependency of Guadeloupe.

    • Related terms

    * Santones (p)

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