crescent city
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A harbor city in northern California, United States, and the county seat of Del Norte County.
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A city in Putnam County, Florida, United States.
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A village in Iroquois County, Illinois, United States.
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Nickname for New Orleans: a city in Louisiana, United States.
Example Sentences
- "The phrase was, and remains, a double-edged sword: a testament to the hard-working and hard-living citizens of the Crescent City and an indicator of the “ah, whatever” shrug hanging over its corrupt politics, its ramshackle infrastructure and its belief that partying trumps all."
Etymology
From the city's crescent-shaped development around the Mississippi River, originally in reference to the older neighborhoods of New Orleans. This imaginary crescent might arc, for example, from the Warehouse District upriver to the Bywater neighborhood downriver, with the French Quarter at its midsection.
Inflected Forms
the Crescent City (canonical)