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Definition of Baltimore

1. Noun. The largest city in Maryland; a major seaport and industrial center.

Definition of Baltimore

1. Proper noun. A city in central Maryland, USA ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Baltimore

Literary usage of Baltimore

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Second Plenary Council of Baltimore met 7 October, 1866, in the cathedral. It recommended the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of North Carolina ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Baltimore COUNCILS: A name given to ten assemblies of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States held during the nineteenth century. ..."

3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1824)
"In size it is about five feet by four, and embraces the entire city of Baltimore, as extended by a recent act of the Legislature of Maryland. ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... that the said plaintiff should have permanent employment as an officer of The Baltimore United Oil Company, at a salary of not less thnn $5.00Ja year, ..."

5. My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass (1855)
"ONCE in Baltimore, with hard brick pavements under my feet, which almost raised blisters, by their very heat, for it was in the ..."

6. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1900)
"Such an one was Baltimore, for the city, small as it then was, had already achieved a high reputation for jollity.* Market street was the fashionable ..."

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