Yonne

[ yawn ]

noun

1. a department in central France. 2,881 sq. mi. (7,460 sq. km). : Auxerre.

Yonne

/ jɔn /

noun

1. a department of N central France, in Burgundy region. Capital: Auxerre. Pop: 335 917 (2003 est). Area: 7461 sq km (2910 sq miles)
2. a river in N France, flowing generally northwest to the Seine at Montereau. Length: 290 km (180 miles)

Example Sentences

Noyers and Tanlay are ten or twelve miles from each other, in the modern department of the Yonne.

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And I myself owe a debt of gratitude to the department of the Yonne as being one of the first to declare for me in 1848.

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Those of the Yonne are larger but of a character far less wild.

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At Villeneuve-sur-Yonne one takes a gigantic step backward into the shadowy past.

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Following the Yonne still upwards towards its source one comes ultimately to Clamecy.

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