Frankfort

Frank·fort
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proper noun

A city, the county seat of Clinton County, Indiana.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A number of places in the United States, including:
    1. A city, the county seat of Clinton County, Indiana.
    2. The capital city of Kentucky, and the county seat of Franklin County.
    3. A town in Waldo County, Maine.
    4. A town and village therein, in Herkimer County, New York.
    5. A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
    6. A town in Pepin County, Wisconsin.
  2. obsoleteObsolete form of Frankfurt (“city in Germany”).

    I will only relate two of our adventures before we reached Frankfort.

    1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman
    1 more example

    ABOUT this time, Madame de Seidlits received accounts of the failure of a houſe at Frankfort, in which her huſband had placed moſt part of the money he had left for the uſe of his widow and daughter. In the ſame houſe alſo was the reſidue of the money produced by the ſale of her furniture and other effects, when ſhe left Germany; […]

    1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter L, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume II, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 1
  3. A barangay of Amai Manabilang, Lanao del Sur, Philippines.

Translations

Latin Francofurtum
  • FrancofurtumAmerican city
Thai แฟรงก์เฟิร์ต
  • แฟรงก์เฟิร์ต (frɛ́ng-fə̀t)American city
Cite this entry
APA

Frankfort. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Frankfort

MLA

“Frankfort.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Frankfort. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Frankfort,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Frankfort.

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