How to use placename in a sentence
There is an expanded place-name index with more than 150,000 entries, and separate undersea, Moon, and Mars features.
DAKOTA is a unisex name in the wide-open Western place name mode.
So the bullet that Gavrilo Princip fired at old Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo (a redolent place-name) goes on echoing.
The place-name Rothwell, anciently Rodewelle, is no doubt with reason assumed to be “well of the rood or cross”.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyWhenever we find man in an early place-name, we can feel pretty sure that it has no reference to the human species.
The Cornwall Coast | Arthur L. Salmon
The spread and the vitality of the place-name Rome were even greater than the vogue of the title Csar.
The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind | Herbert George WellsA place name on the Pacific coast; sandy beach and arid tropical scrub forest.
The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacn, Mxico | William E. DuellmanThere is nothing that it enjoys more than to have a Minister struggling with the pronunciation of some outlandish place-name.
British Dictionary definitions for place name
the name of a geographical location, such as a town or area
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