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MILWAUKEE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Milwaukee mean?
• MILWAUKEE (noun)
The noun MILWAUKEE has 1 sense:
1. largest city of Wisconsin; located in southeastern Wisconsin on the western shore of Lake Michigan; a flourishing agricultural center known for its breweries
Familiarity information: MILWAUKEE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Largest city of Wisconsin; located in southeastern Wisconsin on the western shore of Lake Michigan; a flourishing agricultural center known for its breweries
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 ("Milwaukee" is a part of...):
Badger State; WI; Wis.; Wisc.; Wisconsin (a midwestern state in north central United States)
Context examples
An international research organization based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that collects and analyzes data of recipients of allogeneic and autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplants.
(International Bone Marrow Transplant Registry, NCI Thesaurus)
And last the murky yellow cars of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad looking cheerful as Christmas itself on the tracks beside the gate.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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