Orleans

• Orléans

From French Orléans, ultimately from Latin Aurelianum, from the name of the Roman emperor Aurelian, who rebuilt the city. More at Aurelius.

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɔɹ.li.ənz/, /ˈɔɹ.liːnz/, /ˌɔɹ.leɪˈɑ̃/, /ˌɔɹ.liˈɑːn/, /ɔːɹˈleɪ(ə)nz/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɔː.li.ənz/, /ɔːˈliː(ə)nz/

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Orleans

1. A city, the capital of Loiret department, France; the regional capital of Centre-Val de Loire.
2. A surname from French [in turn transferred from the place name].

• New Orleans
• Orleans County
• Orleans Parish

Orleans (countable and uncountable, plural Orleans or Orleanses)

1. (uncountable, textiles) A cloth made of worsted and cotton, used for making clothes.
2. (countable) A variety of plum.

• “Orleans”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Ronseal, Salerno, arenols, loaners, reloans

Orleans m or f

1. Orleans (a city in Centre-Val de Loire, France)

• IPA^(key): /ɔʁləˈʔaːns/

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Orleans n (proper noun, strong, genitive Orleanses)

1. Orleans (a city in Centre-Val de Loire, France)

Orleans m or f

1. Orleans (a city in France)

• Rhymes: -ɐ̃s
• Hyphenation: Or‧le‧ans

Unadapted borrowing from French Orléans, named after Prince Gaston of Orléans. Doublet of Aureliano and Orleães.

Orleans f (demonym orleanense)

1. a municipality of Santa Catarina, Brazil

Orleans f

1. alternative form of Orleães