Lille

[ leel ]

/ lil /

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noun

a city in and the capital of Nord, in N France.

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Formerly Lisle.

Words nearby Lille

lilied, Lilienthal, lilies of the field, Consider the, Lilith, Liliuokalani, Lille, Lille Bælt, Lillee, Lillian, Lillibullero, Lilliput

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How to use Lille in a sentence

The sexual bildungsroman, for the uninitiated, centers on Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos), a 15-year-old high school student in Lille.
‘Blue is the Warmest Color’: See What the Sex Scene Looks Like In the Graphic Novel|Marlow Stern|October 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But he still faces charges of “aggravated pimping” in Lille, north of Paris.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn Talks Comeback With Parisian Magazine Le Point|Tracy McNicoll|October 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
What about forthcoming revelations from the investigation at the Carlton in Lille?
DSK's Wife Says She Will Head French Version of the Huffington Post|Eric Pape|December 22, 2011|DAILY BEAST
It is dubbed the Affaire du Carlton, after a four-star hotel at the heart of the scandal in Lille, northeast of Paris.
Hooker-Ring Probe Embroils DSK|Tracy McNicoll|October 18, 2011|DAILY BEAST

Three picked divisions were hurled against the hills of Lille and Ravetsberg, to the east of Bailleul, which fell.
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres|Unknown
In the fields: numerous small forts of reinforced concrete, which commanded all the roads into Lille.
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres|Unknown
A few yards further on, take the level-crossing over the Ypres-Lille Railway.
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres|Unknown
You escape from Lille, just on the frontier, what on earth were you doing down at Blois, a hundred miles south of Paris?
The Cornet of Horse|G. A. Henty
Rupert learned that after his escape from Lille the marquis was for three weeks confined to his bed.
The Cornet of Horse|G. A. Henty

British Dictionary definitions for Lille

Lille

/ (French lil) /

noun

an industrial city in N France: the medieval capital of Flanders; forms with Roubaix and Tourcoing one of the largest conurbations in France. Pop: 184 657 (1999)

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