I. Pa‧ris1 /ˈpærəs, ˈpærɪs/
the capital city of France, on the River Seine, which is also the country’s business and financial centre. Paris is typically thought of as a very romantic city, and is known as a place where many famous artists lived, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It has many important
museums and galleries (
gallery), including the Louvre, and its famous buildings include the Eiffel Tower and the
cathedral of Notre Dame. It is also known as a centre of the European fashion industry, and many important designers work there. British people used to think of Paris as a place where sexual morals were less strict than in the UK, and it was sometimes known as ‘Gay Paree’. It was also a popular place for US writers to live in the 1920s and 1930s, including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. People from Paris are called Parisians. ⇒
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II. Paris2 in ancient Greek stories, a prince of
Troy who caused the
Trojan War by taking Helen away from Greece, and who killed
Achilles in this war ⇒
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