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Framingham

Framingham proper noun: a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

Proper noun

Framingham

  1. A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
    • A small, nondescript Northeastern town bound by a chain of frozen lakes in midwinter, Framingham is nonetheless an iconic place writ large in the history of medicine.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 444

Origin of Framingham

Named after Framlingham, Suffolk, England, but with an unexplained variation in spelling.

Questions about Framingham

What does Framingham mean?
Framingham means a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
What part of speech is Framingham?
Framingham is a proper noun.

Words near Framingham in the dictionary

  1. framing in
  2. framing out
  3. framing square
  4. framing squares
  5. framing up
  6. Framingham
  7. Framingham Pigot
  8. framings
  9. framire
  10. framires
  11. framis

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