Meanings
proper noun
- 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
Named after Framlingham, Suffolk, England, but with an unexplained variation in spelling.
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APA
Framingham. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Framingham
MLA
“Framingham.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Framingham. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Framingham,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Framingham.
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