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Definition of City of brotherly love
1. Noun. 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.
Terms within: Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Independence Hall, Walt Whitman Bridge
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Keystone State, Pa, Pennsylvania
Lexicographical Neighbors of City Of Brotherly Love
Literary usage of City of brotherly love
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1835 At Philadelphia, " the city of Brotherly Love" you are A great wonder appeared
in ... 1847 So here am I, in the City of Brotherly Love, at last again. ..."
2. Rambles in the United States and Canada During the Year 1845: With a Short by Thomas Horton James (1847)
"... Place—Folly of High Tariffs —Poor Manufactures — Yellow Fever—Boots and Shoes —
Wooden Clocks—Paper Mills—Soap—City of Brotherly Love the most disturbed ..."
3. Columbia and Canada: Notes on the Great Republic and the New Dominion. A by William Fraser Rae (1877)
"THE city of brotherly love. IF a stranger wished to increase the number of persons
who considered him alike presumptuous and incompetent, he would undertake ..."
4. Life and Society in America by Samuel Phillips Day (1880)
"THE " city of brotherly love." PHILADELPHIA is brought into increased prominence
owing to the late Centennial Exhibition. It is considered the metropolis of ..."
5. The History of Our Country from Its Discovery by Columbus to the Celebration by Abby Sage Richardson (1875)
"City of Brotherly Love. — Naming of Pennsylvania. — Delaware made a Separate Colony.
THROUGH all this period in which so many settlements were being made, ..."
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