I. Pa ‧ ris 1 /ˈpærəs, ˈpærɪs/ BrE AmE
the capital city of France, on the River Seine, which is also the country’s business and financial centre. Paris is typically thought of as a very romantic city, and is known as a place where many famous artists lived, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It has many important ↑ museum s and galleries (↑ gallery ), including the Louvre, and its famous buildings include the Eiffel Tower and the ↑ cathedral of Notre Dame. It is also known as a centre of the European fashion industry, and many important designers work there. British people used to think of Paris as a place where sexual morals were less strict than in the UK, and it was sometimes known as ‘Gay Paree’. It was also a popular place for US writers to live in the 1920s and 1930s, including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. People from Paris are called Parisians. ⇨ ↑ Montmartre
II. Paris 2 BrE AmE
in ancient Greek stories, a prince of ↑ Troy who caused the ↑ Trojan War by taking Helen away from Greece, and who killed ↑ Achilles in this war ⇨ ↑ Iliad