Frankfort

[frangk-fert] /ˈfræŋk fərt/

noun
1.
a city in and the capital of Kentucky, in the N part.
2.
a city in central Indiana.
3.
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[kuh n-tuhk-ee] /kənˈtʌk i/
noun
1.
a state in the E central United States. 40,395 sq. mi. (104,625 sq. km).
Capital: Frankfort.
Abbreviation: KY (for use with zip code), Ken., Ky.
2.
a river flowing NW from E Kentucky to the Ohio River. 259 miles (415 km) long.
[frangk-fer-ter] /ˈfræŋk fər tər/
noun
1.
a small, cooked and smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork, with or without casing; hot dog; wiener.
/ˈfræŋkfət/
noun
1.
a city in N Kentucky: the state capital. Pop: 27 408 (2003 est)
2.
(rare) an English spelling of Frankfurt1
/ˈfræŋkˌfɜːtə/
noun
1.
a light brown smoked sausage, made of finely minced pork or beef, often served in a bread roll
/ˈfræŋkˌfɜːtə/
noun
1.
an inhabitant or native of Frankfurt
/kɛnˈtʌkɪ/
noun
1.
a state of the S central US: consists of an undulating plain in the west, the Bluegrass region in the centre, the Tennessee and Ohio River basins in the southwest, and the Appalachians in the east. Capital: Frankfort. Pop: 4 117 827 (2003 est). Area: 102 693 sq km (39 650 sq miles) Abbreviation Ken., Ky., (with zip code) KY
2.
a river in central Kentucky, rising in the Cumberland Mountains and flowing northwest to the Ohio River. Length: 417 km (259 miles)
n.

“hot dog,” 1894, American English, from German Frankfurter “of Frankfurt,” because a smoked-beef-and-pork sausage somewhat like a U.S. hot dog was originally made in Germany, where it was associated with the city of Frankfurt am Main (literally “ford of the Franks on the River Main”). Attested from 1877 as Frankfort sausage.

U.S. state, earlier a county of Virginia, organized 1776; the name is of Iroquois or Shawnee origin, perhaps a Wyandot (Iroquoian) word meaning “meadow” (cf. Seneca geda’geh “at the field”); the river name seems to have been the original use in English; the native use perhaps was first in reference to a village in Clark County known in Shawnee as Eskippakithiki. Related: Kentuckian.

State in the east-central United States bordered by Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north; West Virginia and Virginia to the east; Tennessee to the south; and Missouri to the west. Its capital is Frankfort. Louisville is its largest city.

Note: The state is known for the breeding of race horses. The Kentucky Derby, a famous horse race, is held every year in Louisville.

Note: Kentucky bluegrass is a type of folk music that originated in the southern United States. The music is named for a bluish-tinged grass that grows in Kentucky.