FORT LAUDERDALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fort Lauderdale mean? 

• FORT LAUDERDALE (noun)
  The noun FORT LAUDERDALE has 1 sense:

1. a city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami; a favorite place for college students to go on their spring vacations

  Familiarity information: FORT LAUDERDALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORT LAUDERDALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in southeast Florida on the Atlantic coast to the north of Miami; a favorite place for college students to go on their spring vacations

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Fort Lauderdale" is a part of...):

Everglade State; FL; Fla.; Florida; Sunshine State (a state in southeastern United States between the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. In Spanish, Florida means Flowery)