| 单词 | gate city |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgate city gate city n. U.S. a city placed at the entrance to a district; spec. (with capital initials) applied to Atlanta, Keokuk, Kansas City, etc. ΚΠ 1859 Ladies' Repository 19 51/2 Keokuk, Iowa, is the ‘Gate City’—a translation, I believe, of its Indian name. 1865 Atlanta Daily Intelligencer 1 Oct. 2/1 Atlanta, the ‘Gate City’ of the South. 1871 S. de Vere Americanisms (1872) 663 Keokuk, in Iowa,..is..poetically called Gate City, since here opens to navigation the largest river of the Union. 1887 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 8 May 9/16 He enters the new South through the gate city. Louisville is to the South what Chicago is to the Northwest. 1894 Congr. Rec. 8384/2 In the front, where..the enterprising citizens of Atlanta have put that beautiful ‘gate city’ of the South. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xxi. 348 In the Gate City of the South the Confederate Veterans were reuniting. < as lemmas |
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