place name
Example Sentences
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To the European Union, Feta, though not a place name, can come only from a region of Greece that has millennia of tradition making that kind of cheese.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
The first - and easiest - question features five images, representing a place name.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2024
If a particular place name sounds hilarious to English speakers, you can bet local people are tired of having that pointed out by giggling visitors.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2024
I’d been discussing the Holocaust for 45 minutes and the whole time he’d heard “Nazi Germany” as “Nazi, Germany,” as though I were saying a place name like “Atlanta, Georgia.”
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022
No place name can be given to it, because the battle was fought 429 m. to the west of Ushant.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
