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DULUTH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Duluth mean?
• DULUTH (noun)
The noun DULUTH has 1 sense:
1. a city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior
Familiarity information: DULUTH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
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)
Holonyms ("Duluth" is a part of...):
Gopher State; Minn.; Minnesota; MN; North Star State (a midwestern state)
Context examples
A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap. And when the Tuolomee left for the West Indies and the Barbary Coast Gatsby left too.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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