duke city
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.42 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The tale is pretty standard stuff—an ex-Golden Gloves champ’s search for his real father intertwined with a ruthless wanna-be Spanish blueblood attorney’s dreams of turning the Duke City’s downtown into a desert Venice by rechanneling the waters of the Rio Grande into canals."
- "Any conversation about travel to New Mexico seems to start with Santa Fe, the tourist-magnet about 60 miles up the road from Albuquerque, the state’s largest city. But Duke City (so called for its namesake, the Duke of Alburquerque, the early 18th-century Viceroy of New Spain) has been emerging from its neighbor’s shadow ever since the popular drama “Breaking Bad” began in 2008."
Etymology
Usage
- American usage
- Colloquial
Inflected Forms
the Duke City (canonical)