Saint-Nazaire

British  

/ sɛ̃nazɛr /

noun

1. a port in NW France, at the mouth of the River Loire: German submarine base in World War II; shipbuilding. Pop: 65 874 (1999)

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Example Sentences

He told the paper that his mother had met Billy in the 1960s, when he was a soldier stationed at the Nato base of Saint-Nazaire and she was a secretary.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Earlier Thursday, Royal Caribbean said it entered into agreements with a shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France, to construct its Discovery Class cruise ships.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

The vessel was traveling south through the Bay of Biscay when it turned east and headed toward Saint-Nazaire, home to Europe’s largest shipyard, according to the ship-tracking service Kpler.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 1, 2025

For David Samzun, mayor of the city of Saint-Nazaire in western France and a Socialist Party member like Hidalgo, a boycott of the contest would have been “unsustainable.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 17, 2022

If you come to it by Saint-Nazaire, the picturesqueness of its position and the naive grace of its environs will please you no less.

From Beatrix by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott