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DUBUQUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dubuque mean? 

DUBUQUE (noun)
  The noun DUBUQUE has 1 sense:

1. a town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi Riverplay

  Familiarity information: DUBUQUE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DUBUQUE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Dubuque" is a part of...):

Hawkeye State; IA; Ia.; Iowa (a state in midwestern United States)


 Context examples 


I still retain an almost verbatim report of the interview in which he demonstrated the true facts of the case to Monsieur Dubuque of the Paris police, and Fritz von Waldbaum, the well-known specialist of Dantzig, both of whom had wasted their energies upon what proved to be side-issues.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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