CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does City of Brotherly Love mean? 

• CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE (noun)
  The noun CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE has 1 sense:

1. the largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania

  Familiarity information: CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CITY OF BROTHERLY LOVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

City of Brotherly Love; Philadelphia

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (parts of "City of Brotherly Love"):

Benjamin Franklin Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Delaware River)

Independence Hall (the building in Philadelphia where the Declaration of Independence was signed)

Walt Whitman Bridge (a suspension bridge across the Delaware River)

Holonyms ("City of Brotherly Love" is a part of...):

Keystone State; PA; Pa.; Pennsylvania (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)