DETROIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Detroit mean? 

• DETROIT (noun)
  The noun DETROIT has 1 sense:

1. the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DETROIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Detroit; Motor City; Motown

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)

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

Great Lakes State; MI; Mich.; Michigan; Wolverine State (a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region)

 Context examples 

His name was written upon a tab within it—Maple White, Lake Avenue, Detroit, Michigan.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A primary objective is to integrate scientific research and clinical programs with community outreach activities to local populations in Detroit.

(Barbara Ann Karmano Cancer Institute, NCI Thesaurus)

A team from the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit and from the University of California, San Francisco, set out to examine the relationship between an infant’s gut microbiota and subsequent development of allergy and asthma.

(Infant gut microbes linked to allergy, asthma risk, NIH)

I tried four times; finally an exasperated central told me the wire was being kept open for long distance from Detroit.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Yes. . . . Well, I can't talk now. . . . I can't talk now, old sport. . . . I said a small town. . . . He must know what a small town is. . . . Well, he's no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town. . . .

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)