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fillmore

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for fillmore.

Editorial note

The city essentially kicked African Americans out starting in the 1970s under the guise of redeveloping the Fillmore District.

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Quick take

A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of fillmore gathered in one view.

noun

A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.

noun

A surname.

noun

A small city in Ventura County, California, United States.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for fillmore.

noun

A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.

noun

A surname.

noun

A small city in Ventura County, California, United States.

noun

A city, the county seat of Millard County, Utah, United States.

Example sentences

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The city essentially kicked African Americans out starting in the 1970s under the guise of redeveloping the Fillmore District.

2

The Allman's Fillmore album (iirc) was their first #1 album, released within weeks of Dwayne's death.

3

While Lovefest was indeed this weekend, so was Oktoberfest, the Fillmore Food and Wine festival, and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.

4

Although I doubt they profited massively from it, Live At Fillmore East is a jam rocker's dream album.

5

It's never very foggy east of Fillmore street, even in the summer.

6

Sure, if some touring indie rock band plays The Fillmore it is filled with Facebook employees, but that's not the sort of grass root support that feeds a living artistic community.

7

Some of the documentation of your site is quite good (eg the Shotwell architectural documentation for programmers), some is pretty perfunctory (eg the Shotweel user documentation, or the almost-non-existent documentation for the deprectated Fillmore project).

8

The Grove on Fillmore St in SF has a goodbye to wifi sign near the entrance that I just noticed a couple of weeks ago, which I thought was pretty interesting.

9

My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead of going home, aimed the big 650 Lightning across the Bay Bridge at a hundred miles an hour wearing L.

10

Of course, in New York in the sixties and seventies, over a third of the apartment buildings in Harlem were simply abandoned and left to rot, and the Bronx was burned; I'm not aware of similar destructiveness in San Francisco (notwithstanding even the Japanese internment which replaced Japantown with the abominable public housing in the modern Fillmore and Western Addition).

Quote examples

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Cafe Reverie and most of the Inner Richmond are indeed WiFi "hot spots." A good walking tour of SF would include a stroll up Haight Street starting at the Fillmore.

Proper noun examples

1

Keep going a bit further and you hit the Fillmore, which is again a wealthy, trendy area.

2

It has happened four times (Franklin Pierce, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson, and Chester A.

3

- A view (on language, not logic) later criticized by linguists such as Tesniere and Fillmore.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use fillmore in a sentence?

The city essentially kicked African Americans out starting in the 1970s under the guise of redeveloping the Fillmore District.

What does fillmore mean?

A neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.

What part of speech is fillmore?

fillmore is commonly used as noun.