单词 | city of brotherly love |
释义 | > as lemmasCity of Brotherly Love City of Brotherly Love n. U.S. (with the) the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [After post-classical Latin philadelphia or its etymon Hellenistic Greek ϕιλαδελϕία brotherly love (see philadelphian adj.1 and n.1); compare Philadelphia n.] ΚΠ 1698 G. Thomas Hist. Acct. Pensilvania 37 It is now time to return to the City of Brotherly-Love (for so much the Greek Word or Name Philadelphia imports). 1795 W. Cobbett Bone to gnaw for Democrats (rev. ed.) 43 How grateful it must be to thee..to be yet adored by the Democrats of the city of brotherly love! 1887 Harper's Mag. Oct. 658/1 There arrived a dog..from the City of Brotherly Love. 1948 S. J. Perelman Westward Ha! i. 9 Philadelphia, a metropolis sometimes known as the City of Brotherly Love but more accurately as the City of Bleak November Afternoons. 2014 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 23 Feb. (Metro ed.) (Sports section) 61 The Rangers, who returned to the Big Apple with two days between games, will practice Thursday at the Garden before returning to the City of Brotherly Love. < as lemmas |
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