place name
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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There are no hard-and-fast rules about when a place name or other traditional description attached to a product becomes generic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
“Not one of my colleagues in the legislature voted against the bill because so many recognize this word is not a place name that belongs in California.”
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024
I’d been discussing the Holocaust for 45 minutes and the whole time he’d heard “Nazi Germany” as “Nazi, Germany,” as though I were saying a place name like “Atlanta, Georgia.”
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022
In the woods, Senderovsky has built a crescent of bungalows around a main house, each with an exotic place name.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021
This place name therefore designates at one time a cluster of several little towns and on other occasions one of these towns.
From The Aboriginal Population of the North Coast of California by Cook, Sherburne Friend
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