| 单词 | queen city |
| 释义 | > as lemmasQueen City Queen City n. chiefly U.S. the pre-eminent or most admired city (of a particular region) (cf. Queen of the West n. at Phrases 1b). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [noun] > chief town or capital city headeOE mother-boroughc1225 master-borougha1325 sedea1387 chief1393 master-townc1400 metropolitan?a1439 capital city1439 master citya1450 stade1481 metropolea1500 capital1525 seatc1540 head-place1546 chamber1555 mother city1570 metropolis1584 metropolite1591 madam-town1593 capital town1601 seat-town1601 metropolie1633 megapolis1638 county seat1803 Queen City1807 metrop1888 Metroland1951 1807 B. Lambert tr. C. Villers Ess. Spirit & Infl. Reformation 150 If Athens, if Delphos, if Corinth, Pisa, Lacedemon, Mytilene, Smyrna, had not enjoyed this peculiar individuality, and if one queen-city had attracted to itself all the glory of Greece, would so many great men and great virtues have blazed forth in every part of it? 1819 Village Rec. (Westchester, Penn.) 8 Dec. 4 Pittsburg! what with thy steam works, thy glass-works, thy salt-works, and thy numberless manufactories, thou mayest surely be called Queen city of the west. 1838 B. Drake (title) Tales and sketches from the Queen City [sc. Cincinnati]. 1880 Harper's Mag. Dec. 70 Local prejudice..and proverbial procrastination..unite to keep ‘Chinatown’ practically a sealed book to the better-class denizens of the Queen City of the Pacific [sc. San Francisco]. 1883 W. Whitman Specimen Days in Specimen Days & Collect 147 So much for my feeling toward the Queen City of the plains and peaks [sc. Denver]. 1943 Colorado Mag. Jan. 15 The Queen City of the Plains [sc. Denver] started in 1878. 1979 M. G. Eberhart Bayou Road v. 47 How could the Yankees have injured..New Orleans, the Queen City, so completely. 2005 A. J. Singer (title) Stepping out in Cincinnati: Queen City entertainment 1900–1960. < as lemmas |
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