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Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale

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A city in the southeast of Florida on the Atlantic coast known for its beaches and spring break parties
  • proper noun
  • /fɔrt ˈlɔːdərdeɪl/
: Fort Lauderdale
  • Many students travel to Fort Lauderdale for spring break to enjoy the sunny beaches.
  • Fort Lauderdale, Florida

I'm that same kid that came out the hood that made it out of Gifford out of Fort Lauderdale.

Examples

  • I support our City of Fort Lauderdale firefighters, and I expect my elected officials to support them too!

    Blog text (28)

  • Now, Fort Lauderdale is not the only community to be invaded at this time.

    Where the Boys Are (1960)

  • I came on the way from Fort Lauderdale to find somebody like you to bring home to my wife.

  • I mean, you go go to Fort Lauderdale and you can see, you know, by the water.

  • We experienced major tidal flooding in the city of Fort Lauderdale.

    Blog text (7)

  • For 50 weeks of the year, Fort Lauderdale, Florida is a small corner of tropical heaven basking contentedly in the warm sun.

    Where the Boys Are (1960)

  • We have offices conveniently located in Fort Lauderdale and Coconut Creek to serve patients from all over Broward.

    Blog text (7)

  • Earlier this fall, in order to maximize my EQMs, I booked a flight to Gainesville that went through Fort Lauderdale.

    Blog text (13)

  • In small communities, higher-order services such as doctors, dentists, and morticians were not accessible to Black people, but they were available in Fort Lauderdale or West Palm Beach.

    Academic text (1992)

  • In the MacDonald novel, Travis McGee was sweltering down there in Fort Lauderdale, where they were having a heatwave so intense it even took the bounce out of the beach bunnies.

    Fiction book (1991)

Surface Forms

Fort Lauderdale main

Morphology

Fort + Lauderdale

The name is a toponym built from 'Fort' (a recognizable word meaning a fortified place) plus 'Lauderdale' (a proper name with no independent lexical meaning). Knowing 'fort' will cue a learner that this is a place name, but the specific referent (a city in Florida and its properties) and the surname element are not derivable from the constituents, so comprehension is only partial.

Etymology

Fort Lauderdale is named after small wooden forts built in 1838 by a soldier called William Lauderdale along a river. People began to call the place 'Fort Lauderdale', and that name stayed.