CHICAGO
Dictionary entry overview: What does Chicago mean?
• CHICAGO (noun)
The noun CHICAGO has 2 senses:
1. largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
2. 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
Familiarity information: CHICAGO used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CHICAGO (noun)
Meaning:
Largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Chicago; Windy City
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Meronyms (parts of "Chicago"):
University of Chicago (a university in Chicago, Illinois)
Holonyms ("Chicago" is a part of...):
IL; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State (a Midwest state in north-central United States)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
stops; boodle; Chicago; Newmarket; Michigan
Hypernyms ("Chicago" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
