St. Denis

American  

[seynt den-is, san duh-nee] / ˌseɪnt ˈdɛn ɪs, sɛ̃ dəˈni /

noun

1. Ruth, 1880?–1968, U.S. dancer.

2. a suburb of Paris in N France: famous abbey, the burial place of many French kings.

3. a seaport in and the capital of Réunion island, in the Indian Ocean.

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Example Sentences

First seen in its full glory at the nearby abbey of St. Denis, Gothic architecture served an age without electricity—one that learned to reduce its walls to their physical minimum in order to welcome sunlight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025

St. Denis and her partner, dancer Ted Shawn, soon founded the Denishawn School downtown, where Graham got her start.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 22, 2025

And on the set of "St. Denis," even though she and her colleagues, like David Alan Grier and Wendi McLendon-Covey, are sketch comedy and improv veterans, "We're pretty disciplined," she says.

From Salon • Dec. 4, 2024

Ulrich placed sacred relics in a hole inside the rooster’s breast, including fragments of Christ’s Crown of Thorns and remains of St. Denis and St. Genevieve, infusing the sculpture with religious importance.

From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2023

These are salted, dried in the open air, packed in casks, and dispatched in large quantities to the markets of St. Denis.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von