Fort Worth

Fort Worth
noun
a city in northeastern Texas (just to the west of Dallas); a major industrial center (Freq. 2)
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑city, ↑metropolis, ↑urban center
• Part Holonyms: ↑Texas, ↑Lone-Star State, ↑TX

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adjective
Usage: usually capitalized F&W
Etymology: from Forth Worth, Tex.
: of or from the city of Forth Worth, Texas

the Fort Worth stockyards

: of the kind or style prevalent in Fort Worth

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a city in N Texas. 385,141.

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[wərTH]
a city in northern Texas, on the Trinity River, west of Dallas; pop. 534,694

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Fort Worth [Fort Worth]
a city in the US state of ↑Texas. It is very close to ↑Dallas, and the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport is one of the largest in the world. Fort Worth contains the Texas Christian University, the Kimball Art Museum and the Cattleman’s Museum, and its opera house and orchestra are well known. It is a centre for the oil, gas, electronics and aircraft industries. It was settled in 1843 and soon became the last stop for ↑cattle being moved to ↑Kansas.

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  • Fort Worth — Fort Worth, TX U.S. city in Texas Population (2000): 534694 Housing Units (2000): 211035 Land area (2000): 292.540602 sq. miles (757.676648 sq. km) Water area (2000): 6.353955 sq. miles (16.456667 sq. km) Total area (2000): 298.894557 sq. miles… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Fort Worth, TX — U.S. city in Texas Population (2000): 534694 Housing Units (2000): 211035 Land area (2000): 292.540602 sq. miles (757.676648 sq. km) Water area (2000): 6.353955 sq. miles (16.456667 sq. km) Total area (2000): 298.894557 sq. miles (774.133315 sq.… …   StarDict's U.S. Gazetteer Places

  • Fort Worth — (spr. wörth), Stadt im nordamerik. Staate Texas, am Trinityfluß, (1900) 26.688 E …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Fort Worth — [after Wm. J. Worth (1794 1849)] city in N Tex.: pop. 535,000 …   English World dictionary

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  • Fort Worth — a city in the northeast of the US state of Texas, near Dallas. It is a centre for farming, the oil industry, and the aircraft building industry …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Fort Worth — Fort Worth′ n. geg a city in N Texas. 479,716 …   From formal English to slang

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