Frankfurter Definition

frăngkfər-tər
frankfurters
noun
frankfurters
A smoked sausage of beef, pork, chicken, etc., enclosed in a membranous casing and made in cylindrical links a few inches long: the casing is now usually removed before packaging.
Webster's New World
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pronoun

One who is from Frankfurt, Germany.

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Other Word Forms of Frankfurter

Noun

Singular:
frankfurter
Plural:
frankfurters

Origin of Frankfurter

  • From German Frankfurter, the adjectival form of Frankfurt. Specifically, a reference to Frankfurt-am-Main.

    From Wiktionary

  • After Frankfurt (am Main)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Frankfurter Sentence Examples

  • The Frankfurter Journal was founded in 1615, the Postzeitung in 1616, the Neue Frankfurter Zeitung in 1859, and the Frankfurter Presse in 1866.

  • See the very full article by Frankfurter in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, which supersedes his earlier biography.

  • In April 1833 occurred what is known as the Frankfort Insurrection (Frankfurter Attentat), in which a number of insurgents led by Georg Bunsen attempted to break up the diet.

  • A lighter vein is to be observed in various dramatic satires written at this time, such as Cotter, Helden and Wieland (1774), Hanswursts Hochzeit, Fastnachtsspiel vorn Pater Brey, Satyros, and in the Singspiele, Erwin and Elmire (1775) and Claudine von Villa Bella (1776); while in the Frankfurter Gelehrte Anzeiger (1772- 1773), Goethe drove home the principles of the new movement of Sturm and Drang in terse and pointed criticism.

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