City of Brotherly Love

English

Etymology

See etymology at Philadelphia.

Proper noun

the City of Brotherly Love

  1. (poetic) Nickname for Philadelphia: a major city in Pennsylvania, United States.
    • 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 16, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
      Indiana eclipsed Philadelphia as the center of North American Quakers in the 1850s. To this day, Richmond, Indiana, is second only to the City of Brotherly Love in total Quaker population.
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