Baltimore

¹ American  

[bawl-tuh-mawr, -mohr] / ˈbɔl təˌmɔr, -ˌmoʊr /

noun

1. a black nymphalid butterfly, Melitaea phaeton, characterized by orange-red, yellow, and white markings, common in those areas of the northeastern U.S. where turtlehead, the food plant of its larvae, is found.

---

Baltimore ² American  

[bawl-tuh-mawr, -mohr] / ˈbɔl təˌmɔr, -ˌmoʊr /

noun

1. David, born 1938, U.S. microbiologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1975.

2. Lord. Sir George Calvert.

3. a seaport in N Maryland, on an estuary near the Chesapeake Bay.

---

Baltimore ¹ British  

/ ˈbɔːltɪˌmɔː /

noun

1. a port in N Maryland, on Chesapeake Bay. Pop: Pop: 628 670 (2003 est)

---

Baltimore ² British  

/ ˈbɔːltɪˌmɔː /

noun

1. David . born 1938, US molecular biologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1975) for his discovery of reverse transcriptase

2. Lord . See Calvert

---

Baltimore Scientific  

/ bôl′tə-môr′ /

1. American microbiologist who discovered the enzyme reverse transcriptase, which is capable of passing information from RNA to DNA. Prior to this discovery, it was assumed that information could flow only from DNA to RNA. He won a 1975 Nobel Prize for his research into the connection between viruses and cancer.

---

Baltimore Cultural  

1. Largest city in Maryland.

---

Discover More

Named after Lord Baltimore, founder of the colony of Maryland. The city is a major industrial center and port.

Etymology

Origin of Baltimore

Baltimore oriole

Example Sentences

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Wiseman lost his wife to cancer in 2020 and has raised their two teenage daughters alone.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

The phrase echoed the one I had spoken years earlier to a babbling toddler in a Baltimore church.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

“The parity in our sport,” Chris Bassitt, a Baltimore Orioles pitcher and a member of the MLBPA’s eight-man executive subcommittee, said, “is better than any other sport.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Ryan Long, a 26-year-old minor league pitcher in the Baltimore Orioles system and a union leader, thinks the players association should try to understand how regular working people feel about a potential lockout.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2026

A family in Baltimore claimed that their sixty-year-old father suffered a heart attack after becoming excited during the broadcast and died two weeks later.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow