GRAND RAPIDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Grand Rapids mean? 

• GRAND RAPIDS (noun)
  The noun GRAND RAPIDS has 1 sense:

1. a city in west central Michigan; noted for manufacturing furniture

  Familiarity information: GRAND RAPIDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GRAND RAPIDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in west central Michigan; noted for manufacturing furniture

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)

Holonyms ("Grand Rapids" is a part of...):

Great Lakes State; MI; Mich.; Michigan; Wolverine State (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)

 Context examples 

The announcement was made Friday by Lawrence Molnar, professor at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, his students, and fellow astronomers from Apache Point Observatory (APO), New Mexico, and the University of Wyoming at the 229th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Grapevine, Texas.

(Star Explosion Could Change Night Sky, VOA News)