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emerald city

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English

Syllables
emer-ald c-i-ty
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Seattle (a city in Washington, United States).

Informal

Example Sentences

Etymology

The Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau held a contest in 1981 to find a new nickname for Seattle. The winning entry, "Emerald City", came from Sarah Sterling-Franklin of Carmel, California, whose submission described the city as "the jewel of the Northwest, the Queen of the Evergreen State, the many-faced city of space, elegance, magic and beauty." "Emerald City" is also a reference to the fictional capital of the Land of Oz in the book series by L. Frank Baum.

Usage

Inflected Forms

the Emerald City (canonical)

Questions

What does emerald city mean?
Seattle (a city in Washington, United States).
Where does emerald city come from?
The Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau held a contest in 1981 to find a new nickname for Seattle. The winning entry, "Emerald City", came from Sarah Sterling-Franklin of Carmel, California, whose submission described the city as "the jewel of the Northwest, the Queen of the Evergreen State, the many-faced city of space, elegance, magic and beauty." "Emerald City" is also a reference to the fictional capital of the Land of Oz in the book series by L. Frank Baum.

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