city in W Calif., on San Francisco Bay: suburb of Oakland: pop. 203,000
Origin:
after John Charles Frémont
See Fremont in American Heritage Dictionary 4
A city of western California on San Francisco Bay southeast of Oakland. It is a manufacturing and shipping center. Population: 202,000.
American explorer, soldier, and politician who explored and mapped much of the American West and Northwest, served as U.S. senator from California (1850-1851), and ran for President (1856).