Definition of Rockford

1. Noun. A city in northern Illinois.

Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Il, Illinois, Land Of Lincoln, Prairie State

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rockford

Rochester
Rochon prism
Rock
Rock Cornish
Rock Cornish hen
Rock Island
Rock Paper Scissors
Rock Springs
Rock fever
Rock of Gibraltar
Rockefeller
Rockefeller Republican
Rockefellers
Rocketshipper
Rocketshippers
Rockford (current term)
Rockies
Rockingham
Rockingham podocarp
Rockstone
Rockwell
Rockwell Kent
Rockwellesque
Rocky
Rocky-mountain maple
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain bee plant
Rocky Mountain bighorn

Literary usage of Rockford

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

1. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1915)
"January No. i TYPHOID FEVER IN Rockford, ILLINOIS* PAUL HANSEN AND HORATIO N. PARKER ... They found that the Rockford outbreaks of enteritis ( cases) in ..."

2. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"These and other social advantages possessed by Rockford are due to the fact that ... Rockford, however, is not by any means described by the above remarks, ..."

3. Reports of Cases at Law and in Chancery Argued and Determined in the Supreme by Illinois Supreme Court (1904)
"THE CITY OF Rockford v, DANIEL W. MEAD. Opinion filed February 17,1904. ... City of Rockford v. Mead, 106 111. App. 278, affirmed. ..."

4. The College Girl of America and the Institutions which Make Her what She is by Mary Caroline Crawford (1904)
"Rockford COLLEGE ON a high bluff above Rock River, ninety miles northwest of Chicago, in the midst of a wooded campus of nine or ten acres, stands Rockford ..."

5. The College Girl of America and the Institutions which Make Her what She is by Mary Caroline Crawford (1904)
"For the story of Rockford College is the story of our Middle West. The founding of the school was an expression of the enthusiasm for the higher education ..."

6. The American Monthly Magazine by Daughters of the American Revolution (1895)
"IN June, 1894, the State Regent of Illinois, Mrs. Alice LR Kerfoot, appointed Mrs. Ralph Emerson, of Rockford, Regent, with authority to organize a Chapter ..."

7. Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1910)
"Rockford, HI.—A franchise granted December 4, 1882, to the Rockford Electric Light and Power Company, authorizing the maintenance of poles, wires and other ..."

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