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

She said it was not right that the eco project was trying to claim ownership of a word that was a place name, a river and a surname, and used by other businesses in Cumbria.

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2022

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

That is the world’s longest place name, according to the Guinness World Records.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 17, 2022

Used most frequently in combination as a place name; e.g.

From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by Borrow, George Henry