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City of Brotherly Love

City of Brotherly Love proper noun: nickname for Philadelphia: a major city in Pennsylvania, United States.

Proper noun

the City of Brotherly Love

  1. (poetic) Nickname for Philadelphia: a major city in Pennsylvania, United States.
    • When General Grant started on his tour around the world, the City of Brotherly Love was selected as the point of departure, and thence he set sail for Europe with the benisons of the sturdy burghers of the Quaker City.1879 December 21, “[Ulysses S.] Grant in Philadelphia”, in Norfolk Virginian, volume XXIX, number 24, Norfolk, Va., →OCLC, page 2, column 1
    • Indiana eclipsed Philadelphia as the center of North American Quakers in the 1850s. To this day, Richmond, Indiana, is second only to the City of Brotherly Love in total Quaker population.2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 16, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN

Origin of City of Brotherly Love

See etymology at Philadelphia.

Questions about City of Brotherly Love

What does City of Brotherly Love mean?
City of Brotherly Love means nickname for Philadelphia: a major city in Pennsylvania, United States.
What part of speech is City of Brotherly Love?
City of Brotherly Love is a proper noun.

Words near City of Brotherly Love in the dictionary

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  4. City of a Thousand Minarets
  5. City of Angels
  6. City of Brotherly Love
  7. City of Brussels
  8. City of Churches
  9. City of Dawson
  10. City of Fines
  11. City of Hate

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