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Definition of Twin Cities
1. Noun. Nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
Group relationships: Gopher State, Minnesota, Mn, North Star State
Member holonyms: Minneapolis, Capital Of Minnesota, Saint Paul, St. Paul
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twin Cities
Literary usage of Twin Cities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Minneapolis (Minn.), Board of Park Commissioners (1903)
"... this parkway up the river and out through the campus of the University of
Minnesota to University avenue, the main thoroughfare between the twin cities. ..."
2. John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet by John Sherman (1895)
"... St. Paul and Minneapolis—Marvelous Growth of the " Twin Cities " — Publication
of the " Sherman Letters" by General Sherman's Daughter Rachel— First ..."
3. Headwaters of the Mississippi: Comprising Biographical Sketches of Early and by Willard W. Glazier (1893)
"... CHAPTER V. THE "Twin Cities." the numberless cities which have sprung into
existence since the discovery of the American continent, few have attracted ..."
4. History of the Northern Pacific Railroad by Eugene Virgil Smalley (1883)
"A Defect in the Northern Pacific Charter—Lake Superior not the Proper Eastern
Terminus—A Description of the Twin Cities of Minnesota— St. Paul the Older ..."
5. The Personality of American Cities by Edward Hungerford (1913)
"THE Twin Cities A FINE yellow train takes you from Chicago to St. Paul and
Minneapolis, in the passing of a single night. And if you ever meet in the course ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"The marvelous growth of these twin cities convinces mo that behind all this
display is the bund of the sturdy farmer of the Northwest, without whose labor ..."
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