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• Fremont
  Fremont

  noun

  a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.
• Frémont
  Frémont

  noun

  John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.

Fremont

¹ American  

[free-mont] / ˈfri mɒnt /

noun

1. a city in W California, near San Francisco Bay.

2. a city in E Nebraska, on the Platte River, near Omaha.

3. a city in N Ohio.

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Frémont ² American  

[free-mont] / ˈfri mɒnt /

noun

1. John Charles, 1813–90, U.S. general and explorer: first Republican presidential candidate, 1856.

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The company last year rolled out its own autonomous delivery robot called Dot, which fulfills orders in the Phoenix area and Fremont, Calif.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Nicole Newcomer, a 40-year-old food-service manager from Fremont, Ohio, ended up at the hospital this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Miller was arrested June 6 in Fremont County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2026

Eight out of every 1,000 jobs in California belong to a truck driver, according to Fremont Contract Carriers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2026

Here among these blackened granite outcrops General Fremont made his stand against a Mexican army, and defeated it.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck

There, in 1847, Andres Pico and John C. Frémont signed the treaty that ceded part of Mexico to the U.S., altering the shape of both countries.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2025

President and Vice-Chancellor Jacques Frémont issued a statement on Sunday confirming Perron’s passing a day earlier in Toronto.

From Fox News ● Sep. 21, 2021

I wrote a history involving a 19th-century woman, Jessie Benton Frémont, and people brought up “Little Women” at every other stop on the book tour.

From New York Times ● Jul. 2, 2020

Jessie met John Frémont when John escorted Jessie’s older sister to a concert.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 23, 2020

Frémont understands the name as signifying a trough; while Winthrop interprets it as plates, or slabs, of rock.

From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch