Name for a geographical entity or location.
The name by which a geographical place is known.
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Examples for "place name "
Examples for "place name "
1 Lurgan is a place name that carries the weight of the past.
2 It is believed to be the longest place name in the world.
3 The current Irish form of the place name Crosshaven is Bun an Tábhairne.
4 The New Zealand Geographic Board spells the place name without macrons.
5 Cado is remembered today in the place name for Cadbury, site of Camelot.
1 A sense of jeopardised identity and wounded pride fused with a toponym to produce an explosive compound.
2 By the end of 1917, some 2,500 toponyms had been changed.
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