Contextualizebeta

Emerald City

name

Etymology

The Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau held a contest in 1981 to find a new nickname for Seattle. The winning entry, "Emerald City", came from Sarah Sterling-Franklin of Carmel, California, whose submission described the city as "the jewel of the Northwest, the Queen of the Evergreen State, the many-faced city of space, elegance, magic and beauty." "Emerald City" is also a reference to the fictional capital of the Land of Oz in the book series by L. Frank Baum.

Definitions

  1. Seattle (a city in Washington, United States).

    • The Emerald City, both famous and notorious for its clouds and rain, has been forced to institute a mandatory water conservation program for the first time "in memorable history."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Emerald City. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA