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• Île de France
  Île de France

  noun

  a former province in northern France, including Paris and the region around it.
• Île-de-France
  Île-de-France

  noun

  a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century

Île de France

American  

[eel duh frahns] / il də ˈfrɑ̃s /

noun

1. a former province in northern France, including Paris and the region around it.

2. former name of Mauritius.

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Île-de-France British  

/ ildəfrɑ̃s /

noun

1. a region of N France, in the Paris Basin: part of the duchy of France in the 10th century

2. a former name (1715–1810) for Mauritius

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Example Sentences

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Île de France Île-de-France

Joseph of Île de France paired the De Fermo with pizza, after a day of hiking, and said he found it “grounding.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2021

Jennifer and her friends in New York enjoyed the “smooth and velvety” schiava the best, but Joseph in Île de France found it too herbaceous, calling the schiava “my challenge.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 29, 2019

Still, as the chef Yannick Alléno has deliciously proven with his lunch-only terroir de Paris menu featuring Île de France produce at Le Meurice, the region remains truffled with small producers of indigenous foods.

From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2010

Then she crossed the Atlantic on the liner Île de France and met William.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

I was intimately acquainted at Manila with some army officers, with whom I had gone from the Île de France to that city on board the “Bon-conseil.”

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

The movement at French lycées, equivalent to sixth form in the UK or high school in the US, began last week in the Île-de-France region around Paris.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

A spokesperson for Île-de-France Mobilités said the driver was accompanied by a "lead driver" and two passengers.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026

Valérie Pécresse, a moderate conservative who heads the Île-de-France regional council and is a former budget minister, won a runoff party vote this weekend to become the candidate of the center-right Republicans.

From New York Times ● Dec. 4, 2021

Born in Maisons-Laffitte, Île-de-France, in 1961, the Oxford-educated Maxwell is the youngest child of the publishing tycoon and fraudster Robert Maxwell.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 2, 2019

There's the Canal of the Aisne and the Marne, too—oh, many wide waters and little streams, to breathe out mist, for Rheims is on the pleasant Île-de-France.

From Everyman's Land by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

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