WINDY CITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Windy City mean? 

• WINDY CITY (noun)
  The noun WINDY CITY has 1 sense:

1. largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan

  Familiarity information: WINDY CITY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WINDY CITY (noun)

Sense 1

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 "Windy City"):

Sears Tower (a skyscraper built in Chicago in 1974; 1454 feet tall)

University of Chicago (a university in Chicago, Illinois)

Holonyms ("Windy City" is a part of...):

IL; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State (a midwestern state in north-central United States)