Frederick

[ fred-rik, -er-ik ]

noun

1. a city in central Maryland.
2. Also Frederic. a male given name: from Germanic words meaning “peace” and “ruler.”

Example Sentences

Waters was inspired by the case of Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters in 1922.

From The Daily Beast

The Chambre Syndicale de La Couture was first developed by the British couturier Charles Frederick Worth and his sons in 1868.

From The Daily Beast

That woman, an island hero, Betto Douglas, may have been a relative of the famous American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.

From The Daily Beast

There were Frederick Douglass in Baltimore, P.S. 91 in Brooklyn, McDonough 35 in New Orleans, and so very many others.

From The Daily Beast

In The Embrace of Unreason, Frederick Brown weaves a warning for America from the story of the divided French.

From The Daily Beast

At one fell swoop on the field of Jena, the famed military monarchy of the great Frederick fell in pieces like a potter's vessel.

From Project Gutenberg

Frederick Spanheim died; a noted divinity professor at Leyden, and a voluminous writer.

From Project Gutenberg

Frederick the Great and Napoleon both loved and used large quantities of the "pungent dust."

From Project Gutenberg

Frederick, embarrassed, thought his sister was carrying the jest too far.

From Project Gutenberg

Prominent among the rulers of the earth who have acknowledged the pleasing influence of snuff is Frederick the Great.

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