Framingham

English

Etymology

Named after Framlingham, Suffolk, England, but with an unexplained variation in spelling.

Proper noun

Framingham

1. A city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 444:

     A small, nondescript Northeastern town bound by a chain of frozen lakes in midwinter, Framingham is nonetheless an iconic place writ large in the history of medicine.

See also

• Framingham Pigot