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FORT LAUDERDALE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Fort Lauderdale mean?
• FORT LAUDERDALE (noun)
The noun FORT LAUDERDALE has 1 sense:
1. a city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami; a favorite place for college students to go on their spring vacations
Familiarity information: FORT LAUDERDALE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami; a favorite place for college students to go on their spring vacations
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Fort Lauderdale" is a part of...):
Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)
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