CHICAGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chicago mean? 

• CHICAGO (noun)
  The noun CHICAGO has 2 senses:

1. largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan

2. a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

  Familiarity information: CHICAGO used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHICAGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Chicago; Windy City

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)

Meronyms (parts of "Chicago"):

Sears Tower (a skyscraper built in Chicago in 1974; 1454 feet tall)

University of Chicago (a university in Chicago, Illinois)

Holonyms ("Chicago" is a part of...):

IL; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State (a midwestern state in north-central United States)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

boodle; Chicago; Michigan; Newmarket; stops

Hypernyms ("Chicago" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

 Context examples 

Kosgei was the Chicago Marathon defending champion.

(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)

But now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have proposed a design solution that could bring artificial leaves out of the lab and into the environment.

(Artificial Leaves Convert CO2 to Fuel 10 Times More Efficient Than Nature, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A team from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, showed early on that the more cancer cells with PNCs in a tumor, the more likely it would spread.

(Scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis, National Institutes of Health)

To scientists at the University of Chicago interested in the role rhythm plays in how humans understand language, the differences between these inputs provided an opportunity for experimentation.

(The Rhythms of Sign Language, NSF)

It was the site of an old encampment, with several empty Chicago meat tins, a bottle labeled "Brandy," a broken tin-opener, and a quantity of other travelers' debris.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The ten dollars for which Martin had sold "Treasure Hunters" to the Chicago newspaper did not come to hand.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

As my speech surely shows you, Mr. Altamont of Chicago had no existence in fact. I used him and he is gone.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here is his reply: ‘The most dangerous crook in Chicago.’

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For the first time, chemists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have used a path-breaking optical imaging technique to pinpoint cholesterol's location and movement within the cell membrane.

(Researchers Zero-In on Cholesterol's Role in Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm, a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France, are part of an international team reporting on the discovery of a new class of antibiotics.

(A New Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)