Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Missouri contiguous with Kansas City, Kansas, at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers. Established as a fur-trading post in the 1820s, it grew as a port and industrial center.
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- proper noun A large
city straddling the border betweenKansas andMissouri , USA.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in western Missouri situated at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River; adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas
- noun a city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri
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Examples
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Pig cheeks with frozen fried rice smothered in what he called a Kansas City barbecue sauce, but it was not.
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Did you know they call Kansas City the “Paris of the Plains”?
Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010
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Did you know they call Kansas City the “Paris of the Plains”?
Crossing the Tracks Barbara Stuber 2010
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Investigators said Franco appeared to go to her house mostly to change into and out of work clothes, and they dubbed her Kansas City address a "giant walk-in closet."
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A humble start: Rose was a first-generation American whose parents moved to Kansas City from a German colony in Russia.
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A humble start: Rose was a first-generation American whose parents moved to Kansas City from a German colony in Russia.
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AMY GOODMAN: When you called the Kansas City police?
Democracy Now! 2009
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AMY GOODMAN: When you called the Kansas City police?
Democracy Now! 2009
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AMY GOODMAN: When you called the Kansas City police?
Democracy Now! 2009
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—If stats don't lie, it'd be fair to label the Kansas City Chiefs, the Jets' opponent this Sunday, as a one-trick-pony offense.
Jets Dare Kansas City to Pass Chris Herring 2011
frogapplause commented on the word Kansas City
I listed this word as "Kansas City, Missouri", but Wordnik ignored the Missouri part. Is the comma to blame?
November 21, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word Kansas City
I've just tried it, and it worked normally from both its own page and the list page.
November 21, 2009
frogapplause commented on the word Kansas City
... but I didn't make my recording on this page. Why is there no recording on the Kansas City, Missouri page (where I made my recording?)
November 21, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word Kansas City
Oh, you're talking about Pronunciations...
November 21, 2009
frogapplause commented on the word Kansas City
Yep. Sorry.
November 21, 2009
grantbarrett commented on the word Kansas City
Yes, it's likely the comma to blame. Or else the system knew that there are two Kansas Cities: one in Missouri and on in Kansas. The good barbecue is on the Missouri side.
November 21, 2009
frogapplause commented on the word Kansas City
I always describe the difference as: one has an international airport (KCMO); the other (KCK) has a Greyhound Bus Depot (or did).
November 21, 2009
pterodactyl commented on the word Kansas City
Or, as they say in nebraksa, an internatile airpot and a bus despot.
November 21, 2009
frogapplause commented on the word Kansas City
Further proof that we can run... but we can never hide from other Wordies! Good detective work, ptero.
November 21, 2009
bilby commented on the word Kansas City
There are two Kansas Cities? Life is so complicated :-(
November 21, 2009