FREDERICK

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Frederick" is a part of...):

Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

Credits

Context examples:

I have very little to say for Frederick's motives, such as I believe them to have been.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

To do him justice, however, he did not resolve to appropriate it; for remembering that there was some very good ranting-ground in Frederick, he professed an equal willingness for that.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

“It’s Jack Harrison the bruiser! Lord Frederick was going to take on the ex-champion. Give him one on the apron, Fred, and see what happens.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Here, Frederick, you and I part company, I believe," said she.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Frederick Lynn has taken a seat beside Mary Ingram, and is showing her the engravings of a splendid volume: she looks, smiles now and then, but apparently says little.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A little while after, Catherine thought the door was still very heavy: so she whispered to Frederick, I must throw the vinegar down.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Frederick will not be the first man who has chosen a wife with less sense than his family expected.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She was acknowledged to be quite right, and the two parts being accepted accordingly, she was certain of the proper Frederick.