Usually means: City of brotherly love, history.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word Philadelphia:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. philadelphia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Philadelphia: Merriam-Webster
  3. Philadelphia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Philadelphia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Philadelphia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Philadelphia: Vocabulary.com
  7. Philadelphia, philadelphia: Wordnik
  8. Philadelphia: Wiktionary
  9. Philadelphia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Philadelphia: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Philadelphia: Dictionary.com
  12. Philadelphia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Philadelphia (Cilicia), Philadelphia (Lydia), Philadelphia (disambiguation), Philadelphia (film), Philadelphia (magazine), Philadelphia (movie), Philadelphia (orchestra), Philadelphia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Philadelphia: Rhymezone
  15. philadelphia: FreeDictionary.org
  16. philadelphia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Philadelphia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. Philadelphia: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Philadelphia: Cook's Thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Philadelphia (PA), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Philadelphia (city, Pennsylvania), Philadelphia (orchestra), Philadelphia: Encyclopedia

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Philadelphia: Easton Bible
  2. Philadelphia (Pennsylvania): Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. Philadelphia: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  2. Philadelphia [Philly], The Philadelphia: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See philadelphias as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Philadelphia)

noun:  The largest city in Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of coterminous Philadelphia County; the former capital of the United States.
noun:  (historical) Former name of Amman, the capital of Jordan.
noun:  (historical) Former name of Alasehir, a city in Turkey.
noun:  A locale in the United States; named for the city in Pennsylvania.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Cass County, Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Sugar Creek Township, Hancock County, Indiana.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi.
noun:  A town and village in Jefferson County, New York.
noun:  A small city in Loudon County, Tennessee.
noun:  A village in Brandenburg, Germany; named for the city in Pennsylvania.
noun:  A village in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England; named for the city in Pennsylvania (OS grid ref NZ3352).
noun:  A suburb of Cape Town, South Africa.

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