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Definition of Place name
1. Noun. The name by which a geographical place is known.
Definition of Place name
1. Noun. the name of a geographical place ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Place Name
Literary usage of Place name
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1883)
"Never prophesy unless you know, is a safe proverb ; never explain a place-name
until you have learnt all about it, is a companion rule for the philologist. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... Carnarvonshire, where the name of the Congregational chapel erected early in
the igth century has altogether supplanted the original Celtic place-name ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"HADADRIMMON: According to the usual interpretation, a place name mentioned in
... The ancient and most modern commentators accept the word as a place name. ..."
4. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1905)
"... is derived) may have been due to the common tendency to assimilate the
unintelligible first element of a place-name to the ..."
5. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne, John Sutherland Black (1903)
"It is Belh-gilgal, ie, Beth-jerahmeel, a place- name to which we have already
been introduced—the city intended was in the S. of Benjamin near Gibeah and ..."
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