Marseille
noun
a port in SE France, on the Gulf of Lions: second largest city in the country and a major port; founded in about 600 bc by Greeks from Phocaea; oil refining. Pop: 798 430 (1999)
Marseille
1 British
/ marsɛj /
noun
marseille
2
British
/ mɑːˈseɪlz, mɑːˈseɪl /
noun
Etymology
Origin of marseille
C18: from Marseille quilting, made in Marseille
Example Sentences
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More than a year before the 2024 Games in Paris, the government began busing thousands of homeless people — many of them immigrants — to places such as Lyon and Marseille.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
This on a list of new destinations including Luxembourg; Ibiza; Marseille, France; Terceira, Portugal; and Olbia and Catania in Italy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Fofana reiterates it was his "dream" to join Chelsea, the club he supported as a boy growing up in Marseille, through his admiration for the Blues' former striker Didier Drogba.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
The “Jay Kelly” star revealed the news in a letter to Didier Bremond, the mayor of the town of Brignoles, east of Marseille.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
He wants to go south, to Marseille, where Monticelli, the painter he admires so, had lived.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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