Frankfurt

• Francfort, Frankfort (obsolete)

Borrowed from German Frankfurt.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹæŋkfə(ɹ)t/
• Homophone: Frankfort (sometimes)

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Frankfurt

1. The largest city in Hesse, in central Germany; in full, Frankfurt am Main.
   • 2025 July 8, Zoe Sottile, “He was born to a US citizen soldier on an army base in Germany. Now he’s been deported to Jamaica, a country he’d never been to”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 July 2025:

     Thomas was born in 1986, at a US military hospital in Frankfurt, Germany, to a mother born in Kenya and a US citizen father who eventually spent more than a decade in the military, where he repaired Army helicopters.

   1. (metonymic) The German financial industry.
      • 1998, Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH Information Services, German Brief, volume 10:

        The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia.

   2. (metonymic) The European Central Bank.
      • 2014 May 9, Dan O'Brien, “Trichet like a broken record when what we need is fresh thinking”, in Irish Independent‎^[2]:

        Despite this risk, little has happened in the six months since Frankfurt cut interest rates causing one to wonder how different Draghi is from his predecessor.

2. A sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany; in full, Frankfurt an der Oder.

• Frankfurt case
• Frankfurt kitchen
• frankfurter
• frank
• Frankfurt School

From German Frankfurt.

Frankfurt m

1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)

   Synonym: Frankfurt del Main

2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

   Synonym: Frankfurt de l'Oder

• frankfurt
• salsitxa de Frankfurt

Literally, “ford of the Franks”, from Franke and Furt (“ford”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfʁaŋkfʊʁt/

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Frankfurt n (proper noun, genitive Frankfurts or (optionally with an article) Frankfurt, plural Frankfurt or Frankfurte or Frankfurts)

1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt an der Oder (a town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

• In former West Germany, Frankfurt invariably refers to Frankfurt am Main. In the East it is more ambiguous and both specifications are often maintained.

• 1858, Austria. Wochenschrift für Volkswirthschaft und Statistik. Des X. Jahrgangs IV. Band., Wien, page 365:

  Im Uebrigen gewähren Leipzig, die beiden Frankfurt und Braunschweig zur Zeit der Messen lediglich dasselbe Bild, was Hamburg, Bremen, Triest, Stettin alle Tage im Jahr gewähren.

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• Frankfurt am Main
• Frankfurt an der Oder
• Frankfurter
• frankfurterisch

From German Frankfurt.

• IPA^(key): [ˈfrɒŋkfurt]
• Rhymes: -urt
• Hyphenation: Frank‧furt

Frankfurt

1. Frankfurt (the largest city in Hesse, Germany)

• Frankfurt am Main
• Majna-Frankfurt (rare)

• frankfurti

Unadapted borrowing from German Frankfurt.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌfɾɐ̃k.ˈfuʁt͡ʃ/, /ˈfɾɐ̃k.fuʁt͡ʃ/

Frankfurt f

1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)

   Synonym: Francoforte

2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Frankfurt m inan (Cyrillic spelling Франкфурт)

1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)

Frankfurt n (genitive Frankfurts)

1. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-am-Main (the largest city in Hesse, in central Germany)
2. Frankfurt, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder (a sizable town in Brandenburg, in eastern Germany)