Synonyms for potomac
pəˈtoʊ məkpo·tomac

Princeton's WordNet

1. Potomac, Potomac Rivernoun

   a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay

2. Potomacnoun

   term sometimes used to refer to Washington, D.C.

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1. • Washington
   • West Virginia
   • River

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1. Jim Acosta:

   You know, I seem to remember Glenn Youngkin campaigning in a fleece vest in Virginia. He was running as a different kind of Republican. I was told there was going to be a vest, not a Soviet-style police state across the Potomac from Washington.

2. Lyndon B. Johnson:

   If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim.

3. Charley Reese:

   If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.

4. Sarah Palin:

   He got a touch of that Potomac fever there in D.C. Maybe he's been -- I don't know -- maybe he's been hanging out in a cornfield too long huffing ethanol or something.

5. Brad Bannon:

   It’s the Potomac Fever -- if you get close to being president, you can’t get the smell off, and you’re always going to want to do it again.