West Palm Beach
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1.8
- proper noun
- /wɛst pɑm biːtʃ/
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West Palm Beach
- Southeastern Florida was settled late in the nineteenth century after the Florida East Coast Railway was built from West Palm Beach to Miami.
- Miami and West Palm Beach
- West Palm Beach-Boca
- West Palm Beach-Boca Raton
Examples
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Two years later, he became a state assistant attorney general based in West Palm Beach, where he met Charlie Crist, who became Florida attorney general in 2002.
Academic text (2011) -
The pattern is less defined between Miami and West Palm Beach.
Academic text (1992) -
A new black district was formed in neighboring West Palm Beach.
Academic text (1992) -
Today we're driving up to West Palm Beach, to take a look at a BMW that was involved in an intersection accident.
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I immediately returned to my office and dug out the Yellow Pages for what Southern Bell called Greater West Palm Beach.
Fiction book (1992) -
Miami and West Palm Beach were the two largest urban centers.
Academic text (1992) -
Higher-order goods and services were available in larger centers such as Miami or West Palm Beach.
Academic text (1992) -
In Miami and West Palm Beach, north-to-south-trending residential zones developed.
Academic text (1992) -
Paul Owers is a West Palm Beach native who graduated from the University of Central Florida in 1989.
Blog text (30) -
The mayor of West Palm Beach, Lois Frankel, announced new policies for the community.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The name 'West Palm Beach' is a compositional toponym whose parts ('West' + 'palm' + 'beach') directly indicate a geographic location — a westerly area associated with palm trees and a beach — so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will infer it refers to a place, likely coastal. This descriptive place‑naming pattern is cross‑linguistically common, making the expression's basic meaning transparent even though specific encyclopedic knowledge (that it is a city in Florida) is additional information.
Etymology
West Palm Beach gets its name from where it stands: it is on the west side of the island called Palm Beach, on the mainland across the water. So the name points to its location, and today West Palm Beach simply means the city on that west side.