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FRANKFURT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Frankfurt mean?
• FRANKFURT (noun)
The noun FRANKFURT has 1 sense:
1. a German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center
Familiarity information: FRANKFURT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A German city; an industrial and commercial and financial center
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Frankfort; Frankfurt; Frankfurt on the Main
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Frankfurt" is a part of...):
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
Context examples
The Brothers Grimm, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), were born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, in the German state of Hesse.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Kirsten Hilger, Christian Fiebach and Ulrike Basten from the Department of Psychology at Goethe University Frankfurt combined functional MRI brain scans from over 300 persons with modern graph theoretical network analysis methods to investigate the neurobiological basis of human intelligence.
(Smart People Have Better Connected Brains, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Frankfurt was delightful.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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