Verne
noun
1.
Jules
[joolz;; French zhyl] /dʒulz;; French ʒül/ (Show IPA), 1828–1905, French novelist.
2.
a male given name, form of Vernon.
noun
1.
a town in S California.
noun
1.
Jules (ʒyl). 1828–1905, French writer, esp of science fiction, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
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