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caen

/kæn/

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What does caen mean?

proper noun

  1. A city in Calvados department, Normandy, France.

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/kæn/

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/kɑn/
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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This eminent arcaeologist was born at Caen in Normandy, but educated at Eton and at Oxford.
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610
They really are a very ancient Norman family of the generalship of Caen.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
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'Poor Brummell, dead, in misery and idiotcy, at Caen!
Andrew SteinmetzThe Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2)Project Gutenberg ebook #466
In his boyhood he obtained a tolerable education at the grammar school of his native town; after which he determined to improve himself by study at the University of Caen, in Normandy.
Samuel SmilesSelf Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and PerseveranceProject Gutenberg ebook #935
By-and-by, the priests came creeping in with prayers and candles; and a good knight, named Herluin, undertook (which no one else would do) to convey the body to Caen, in Normandy, in order that it might be buried in St. Stephen’s church there, which the Conqueror had founded.
Charles DickensA Child's History of EnglandProject Gutenberg ebook #699