dauphin
IPA: dˈaʊfɪn
noun
- The eldest son of the king of France. Under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties, the Dauphin of France, generally shortened to Dauphin, was heir apparent to the throne of France. The title derived from the main title of the Dauphin, Dauphin of Viennois.
- (allegorical) An eldest son.
- The title of a dauphin.
- A placename:
- A commune of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.
- A city in Manitoba, Canada.
- The Rural Municipality of Dauphin, a rural municipality in western Manitoba, which surrounds the city.
- A borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Texas, United States.
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Examples of "dauphin" in Sentences
- Fort Dauphin was a rough place to live.
- This was a form of address for the dauphin.
- Contois was a candidate in the riding of Dauphin.
- The Dauphin was immediately the subject of controversy.
- This was the style of the dynastic wife of the dauphin.
- The castle was the property of the Dauphins of Auvergne.
- The Dauphin Charles was disinherited from the succession.
- LC: Okay, so, this Charles, the "dauphin" if you will ...
- As a morganatic spouse, she was not styled the Dauphine of France.
- The Dauphine was used as the basis for the electric Henney Kilowatt.
- The sister of the dauphin is a good girl, not many years your senior.
- Dauphin high schoolers also play a big part of the athletics of Dauphin.
- The name Renault settled on is the female form of "dauphin," a French royal title.)
- Which came first the "dauphin" or the region of "Dauphine" which is on the Swiss border?
- Not bad for the improbable communist dauphin, a spoiled overweight twenty-something with no known accomplishments.
- So the "dauphin" quote, which dates back several years, is crossed out, with a scrawl on the side that reads, "No, CH."
- The Count-dauphin of Vienne left his county to Jean, son of the king, and thence "dauphin" became the title of the heir-apparent.
- The gap may have narrowed since then, and the reaction has been a blast of anti-Ed stories portraying him as a swivel-eyed baby Bennite, a child insurrectionist compared with his entitled dauphin of a bro.
- He even seduced, by his address, Charles, the king of France's eldest son, a youth of seventeen years of age, who was the first that bore the appellation of "dauphin," by the reunion of the province of Dauphiny to the crown.
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