English

Proper noun

Frankfurt

1. Frankfurt-am-Main, a city in central Germany.
   1. (by extension) the German financial industry.
      • 1998, Franfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH Information Services, German Brief, volume 10:

        The poor third-quarter results from Frankfurt had the broadest impact because they spotlighted the vulnerability of the listed German universal banks to the financial crisis spreading from Asia.

   2. (by extension) the European Central Bank.
      • 2014, May 9, Dan O'Brien, Irish Independent, "Trichet like a broken record when what we need is fresh thinking":

        Despite this risk, little has happened in the six months since Frankfurt cut interest rates causing one to wonder how different Draghi is from his predecessor.

2. Frankfurt-an-der-Oder, a city near Berlin Germany.

Derived terms

• frankfurter, frank

Translations

Catalan

Proper noun

Frankfurt m

1. Frankfurt

German

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Frankfurt n ‎(genitive Frankfurts, plural Frankfurt)

1. Frankfurt
   • 1858, Austria. Wochenschrift für Volkswirthschaft und Statistik. Des X. Jahrgangs IV. Band., Wien, page 365:

     Im Uebrigen gewähren Leipzig, die beiden Frankfurt und Braunschweig zur Zeit der Messen lediglich dasselbe Bild, was Hamburg, Bremen, Triest, Stettin alle Tage im Jahr gewähren.

Derived terms

• Frankfurt am Main
• Frankfurt an der Oder

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowing from German Frankfurt.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˌfɾɐ̃k.ˈfuʁt͡ʃ/, /ˈfɾɐ̃k.fuʁt͡ʃ/

Proper noun

Frankfurt f

1. Frankfurt (a city in Hesse, Germany)

Synonyms

• Francoforte

Serbo-Croatian

Proper noun

Frankfurt m ‎(Cyrillic spelling Франкфурт)

1. Frankfurt

English

Noun

frankfurt ‎(plural frankfurts)

1. (US, Australia) A frankfurter; a hot dog sausage.
   • 1919, Michigan Office of Dairy and Food Commissioner, Annual report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner of the State of Michigan, Volume 25, page 81,

     Sample of frankfurts procured from Stanley Kwiatkowski, Grand Rapids, Mich. Contains excessive amount of cereal.

   • 1942, Robert Byron Hinman, Robert Bernard Harris, The Story of Meat, page 137,

     Frankfurts of the highest quality are prepared generally from a mixture of approximately half beef and half pork.

   • 2016 June 10, smithxpj, “Ham banned in Broadmeadows”, in aus.consumers, Usenet:

     As a kid in the 50s, (before we became infested with the current mish-mash of liquorice allsorts) pork fritz, devon, sliced ham, frankfurts, pork sausages...were all about as common a staple as you care to name. Even the Italians and Greeks of the time ate (and continue to eat) the stuff!!

Synonyms

• frank
• frankfurter

Derived terms

• cocktail frankfurt

See also

• sav
• savaloy