Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "Bois de Boulogne" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD BOIS DE BOULOGNE

French.
info
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp
section

PRONUNCIATION OF BOIS DE BOULOGNE

Bois de Boulogne play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF BOIS DE BOULOGNE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Bois de Boulogne is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES BOIS DE BOULOGNE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Bois de Boulogne

Bois de Boulogne

The Bois de Boulogne (French pronunciation: ​) is a large public park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine It was created between 1852 and 1858 during the reign of the Emperor Louis Napoleon. It is the second-largest park in Paris, slightly smaller than the Bois de Vincennes on the eastern side of the city. It covers an area of 8.459 km2 (3.266 sq mi; 2,090 acres), which is 2.5 times larger than Central Park in New York, and comparable in size to Richmond Park in London. Within the boundaries of the Bois de Boulogne are an English landscape garden with several lakes and a cascade; two smaller botanical and landscape gardens, the Château de Bagatelle and the Pré-Catelan; a zoo and amusement park in the Jardin d'Acclimatation; The Jardin des Serres d'Auteuil, a complex of greenhouses holding a hundred thousand plants; two tracks for horse racing, the Hippodrome de Longchamp and the Auteuil Hippodrome; a tennis stadium where the French Open tennis tournament is held each year; and other attractions.

Definition of Bois de Boulogne in the English dictionary

The definition of Bois de Boulogne in the dictionary is a large park in W Paris, formerly a forest: includes the racecourses of Auteuil and Longchamp.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE BOIS DE BOULOGNE

Bois-le-Duc
Boise
Boise City
boiserie
boisterous
boisterously
boisterousness
boite
Boito
Bok
bok choy
Bokassa I
boke
Bokhara
Bokhara rug
bokmakierie
BOL
Bol.

WORDS THAT END LIKE BOIS DE BOULOGNE

Auvergne
Bastogne
Boulogne
Bourgogne
Bretagne
champagne
Charlemagne
Cockaigne
cologne
Dordogne
eau de Cologne
epergne
Gascogne
Gascoigne
insigne
lasagne
Lavigne
ligne
Montaigne
pink champagne

Synonyms and antonyms of Bois de Boulogne in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Bois de Boulogne» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF BOIS DE BOULOGNE

Find out the translation of Bois de Boulogne to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Bois de Boulogne from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Bois de Boulogne» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

布洛涅森林
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Bois de Boulogne
570 millions of speakers

English

Bois de Boulogne
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Bois de Boulogne
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بوا دي بولون
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Булонский лес
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Bois de Boulogne
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বোস ডি বোুলোনে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Bois de Boulogne
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bois de Boulogne
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bois de Boulogne
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ブーローニュの森
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

불로뉴 숲
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Bois de Boulogne
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Bois de Boulogne
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போயிஸ் டி பவுலோகன்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

बोइस डी बॉलोगन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Bois de Boulogne
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Bois de Boulogne
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Bois de Boulogne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Булонський ліс
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Bois de Boulogne
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Bois de Boulogne
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Bois de Boulogne
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Bois de Boulogne
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Bois de Boulogne
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Bois de Boulogne

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «BOIS DE BOULOGNE»

The term «Bois de Boulogne» is regularly used and occupies the 85.805 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Regularly used
60
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «Bois de Boulogne» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of Bois de Boulogne
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Bois de Boulogne».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «BOIS DE BOULOGNE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «Bois de Boulogne» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «Bois de Boulogne» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Bois de Boulogne

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOIS DE BOULOGNE»

Discover the use of Bois de Boulogne in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Bois de Boulogne and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Soirées du bois de Boulogne, ou Nouvelles françoises et ...
Anne Claude Philippe comte de Caylus. # l I i A *$ 4. * Ufe * + Il о No»ш • •• • ?» ir SOIRÉES DU BOIS ; pü BOULOGNE, S E CONDE PARTIE. QUATRIEME SOIRÉE. CI]'étoit mon tour cette fois-eî dé défrayer la compagnie , je fouhaitois ...
Anne Claude Philippe comte de Caylus, 1782
2
Chambers's handy guide to Paris, together with an account of ...
BOIS DE BOULOGNE. 147 In hiring a fiacre, it is necessary to state at the outset whether you wish to travel by the course or hy the hour. If a fiacre, having been taken for a course, has to halt for more than ten minutes, the driver is entitled to ...
Chambers W. and R., ltd, 1863
3
Large Parks
In Large Parks, Julia Czerniak and George Hargreaves present eight essays by leading scholars and practitioners that engage large urban parks in depth as complex cultural spaces, where key issues oflandscape discourse, ecological challenges ...
Julia Czerniak, George Hargreaves, 2007
4
Landscapes in History: Design and Planning in the Eastern ...
Estate of Prince Puckler- Muskau. design of the Bois de Boulogne, a 110-acre site with allees and ronds, rests with Louis Napoleon, who was interested in the English landscape style and wished to model Parisian parks after the English style.
Philip Pregill, Nancy Volkman, 1999
5
The Hidden Consumer: Masculinities, Fashion and City Life ...
6 'As I walked along the Bois de Boulogne': subversive performances A feature of London street life that was peculiar to the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was the oafish custom of crying purposeless catchphrases. The phrases had ...
Christopher Breward, 1999
6
Conventional Pictures: Charles Marville in the Bois de Boulogne
This dissertation examines a group of sixty photographs made by the French photographer Charles Marville (1816-c. 1879), in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, in 1858, when it was transformed into the first and one of the grandest public parks ...
Peter D. Barberie, 2007
7
Galignani's new Paris guide: containing an accurate ...
Bois de Boulogne. — This wood, at the distance of about two miles from Paris, bears the name of a village to which it is contiguous. Before the Revolution it presented few trees that were not stunted and dying with age. The revolutionary axe ...
Galignani, firm, publishers, Paris, 1838
8
The History of Paris: From the Earliest Period to the ...
Bois DE BOULOGNE. — This wood bears the name of a village to which it is contiguous. It was originally called Bois de Rouvray, or Garenne de Rouvray, and was much more considerable than at present. The kings of the first race, when they ...
9
Trifles Make Perfection
BOULOGNE. On a recent saturday afternoon, as I walked in the Bois de Boulogne, it seemed that Paris hadn't changed at all since I first came here almost fifty years ago. To be sure, the elegant carriages of yesteryear had disappeared, as had ...
Joseph Wechsberg, David Morowitz, 2003
10
Cultivating Madrid: Public Space and Middle-class Culture in ...
Although the memorialist indicates that "the others" do enjoy the park, the implication is clear that the Bois de Boulogne is by and large identified with high- life ladies on parade. In his 1880 guide to Paris and its environs, Spanish writer Luis ...
Daniel Frost, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOIS DE BOULOGNE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Bois de Boulogne is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Karolina Kurkova and Archie Drury Expecting Their Second Child …
On Sunday, Louis Vuitton opened a private museum in the Bois de Boulogne, right outside of Paris. Curated by fashion professor Judith Clark, ... «HarpersBAZAAR.com, Jul 15»
2
Kenzo Premieres Gregg Araki Short Film at Open-Air Theater
MOVIE NIGHT: Humberto Leon and Carol Lim set up an open-air movie theater in the Bois de Boulogne in Paris on Friday night for the ... «WWD, Jul 15»
3
Louis Vuitton Opens Private Museum Near Paris
But unlike the monumental Frank Gehry-designed Louis Vuitton Foundation in the Bois de Boulogne on the western edge of Paris, its new ... «WWD, Jul 15»
4
Wimbledon 2015: Novak Djokovic marches on after masterclass …
The Swiss gave every sign on Friday of picking up where he had left off in the Bois de Boulogne, striking his mesmeric single-handed ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
5
The best places in Paris to escape the heatwave
Or perhaps the best option is head out to the edge of the city whether it's the Bois de Vincennes in the east or Bois de Boulogne in the west. «The Local.fr, Jul 15»
6
A&E notebook: Pittsburgh's Diner en Blanc date set — Sept. 11
Diner en Blanc began in Paris in 1988 when Francois Pasquier invited some friends to meet up for a secret dinner in the Bois de Boulogne. «Tribune-Review, Jun 15»
7
Why the route could make the 2015 Tour the best in recent memory
Yes, we have the usual 10 laps of the Champs-Elysees, but the route into Paris takes an unaccustomed detour through the Bois de Boulogne ... «The Roar, Jun 15»
8
Grand Paris 'Central Park' project runs into opposition
The project would eat up 110ha of the 410ha park, the third largest green space in Greater Paris after the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de ... «Property Investor Europe, Jun 15»
9
Discovering Napoleon in Paris with Philippe de Carbonnières
... his architects Percier and Fontaine in order to design the immense project with a huge annexation of a whole section of the Bois de Boulogne ... «AMA, Jun 15»
10
Locals say 'non' to plans for a Paris 'Central Park'
... at 415 hectares (over 1,000 acres) is the third biggest green space in Greater Paris behind the Bois de Boulogne and the Bois de Vincennes. «The Local.fr, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Bois de Boulogne [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/bois-de-boulogne>. Apr 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z