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Foraker
[ fawr-uh-ker, for- ]
noun
- Mount Foraker, a mountain in central Alaska, in the Alaska Range, near Denali. 17,280 feet (5,267 meters).
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Foraker1
First recorded in 1895–1900; named after Joseph B. Foraker (1846-1917), U.S. governor and senator from Ohio
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Example Sentences
In the words of Foraker, "They ask no favors because they are Negroes, but only justice because they are men."
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Governor Foraker, of Ohio, this afternoon sent five hundred tents to this city.
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Then mother took the blue suit, wrapped it up carefully and putting it in my hands told me to take it back to Miss Foraker.
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Senator Foraker said of him, at a critical moment of his public career, "De mortuis nil."
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Captain Foraker desires me to tell you that he wished the prisoner transferred to the Albatross.
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