FREDERICK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Frederick mean? 

• FREDERICK (noun)
  The noun FREDERICK has 1 sense:

1. a town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore

  Familiarity information: FREDERICK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREDERICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in northern Maryland to the west of Baltimore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Frederick" is a part of...):

Free State; Maryland; MD; Md.; Old Line State (a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies)

 Context examples 

"Poor Frederick!" said he at last.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Henry and Frederick Lynn are very dashing sparks indeed; and Colonel Dent is a fine soldierly man.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was once a man called Frederick: he had a wife whose name was Catherine, and they had not long been married.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Knock some of the soot off him, Lord Frederick!” they shouted.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Frederick could not be unpardonably guilty, while Henry made himself so agreeable.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I heard him as I came upstairs, and the theatre is engaged of course by those indefatigable rehearsers, Agatha and Frederick.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

A government-owned, contractor operated cancer research facility located in Frederick, MD.

(Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, NCI Thesaurus)

No, no; Frederick is not a man to whine and complain; he has too much spirit for that.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"Why, she's a real sorceress!" cried Frederick Lynn.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“My stars!” said she, “what shall I do to keep Frederick from seeing all this slopping about?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)