Definition of Chicago

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

Exact synonyms: Windy City
Terms within: Sears Tower, University Of Chicago
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center, Port
Group relationships: Il, Illinois, Land Of Lincoln, Prairie State

2. Noun. 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.
Exact synonyms: Boodle, Michigan, Newmarket, Stops
Generic synonyms: Card Game, Cards

Definition of Chicago

1. Proper noun. A large city located on Lake Michigan in northeastern Illinois, USA. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chicago

ChiMwini
Chiacoan peccary
Chian
Chian turpentine
Chiang Chung-cheng
Chiang Kai-shek
Chianti
Chiapas
Chiari's disease
Chiari's net
Chiari's syndrome
Chiari-Budd syndrome
Chiari II syndrome
Chiayi
Chiba
Chicago (current term)
Chicago-style
Chicago-style hot dog
Chicago-style hot dogs
Chicago Protocol
Chicago disease
Chicago dog
Chicago dogs
Chicago typewriter
Chicago typewriters
Chicagoan
Chicagoans
Chicagoland
Chicana
Chicanas

Literary usage of Chicago

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sunsetby Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1901)
"Double Drawing Room Sleeping Car and Dining Car San Francisco to Chicago, ... TUESDAYS, San Francisco to Chicago, via Salt Lake, Pueblo and Kansas City. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"EE§ Burns, Medill High School, Chicago. Report of Committee on ' Reference Books in Physics/ AH Sage, State Normal School, ..."

3. Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention by Religious Education Association (1904)
"D. t 1903 President University of Chicago, Chicago, ll! ... D., DD 1903 Professor University of Chicago, 5736 Washington Ave., Chicago, lll. ..."

4. Who's who in America by Marquis Who's Who, Inc (1903)
"36 WB Conkey Co., Chicago. 37 Chicago Medical Book Co. ... 9 United Society of Christian Endeavor, Chicago and Boston. 10 Episcopal Pub'n Society, New York. ..."

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