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Frankfurt

1

/ ˈfraŋkfʊrt (an der ˈoːdər) /

noun

  1. a city in E Germany on the Polish border: member of the Hanseatic League (1368–1450). Pop: 67 014 (2003 est)


Frankfurt

2

/ ˈfraŋkfʊrt (am ˈmain) /

noun

  1. a city in central Germany, in Hesse on the Main River: a Roman settlement in the 1st century; a free imperial city (1372–1806); seat of the federal assembly (1815–66); university (1914); trade fairs since the 13th century. Pop: 643 432 (2003 est)

Frankfurt

  1. City in west central Germany on the Main River; an industrial, commercial, and financial center.


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Example Sentences

Word then came from Germany that the three had been detained by police after spending an entire day at Frankfurt Airport.

The corpse of a British man who died in Macedonia is being flown to Frankfurt for Ebola testing.

He was arrested as he came off Delta Flight 107 from Frankfurt to New York.

In 1983, my parents and I spent an extremely cordial afternoon with Friedel, Oscar, and their family in Frankfurt.

Friedel, Oscar, and their children left Israel, moving to Frankfurt.

In the meanwhile I had received another cable from home telling me to call up a certain banker in Frankfurt.

At first I thought I would take a train and go up to Frankfurt to shorten the process of borrowing money.

I therefore bade goodbye to my employer and his whole family, took a seat on the Frankfurt post, and set out for Berlin.

He would give him a letter to carry to the grandfather, which would explain everything, and he could then return to Frankfurt.

June 25th, after some preliminary survey of the place, Belleisle made his Entry into Frankfurt: magnificent in the extreme.

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