Queen City
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small city in Schuyler County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: A small city in Cass County, Texas, United States.
examples: text: This Community is located in the central part of Adams County, but in the south-west part of the State of Iowa, and its post office address is Queen City, Adams County, Iowa. It was established in that place thirteen years ago[…]
ref: 1868, The Communist, page 7:
text: In 1869 he located in Iowa and from that time to the date of his death, practiced his profession in Adams and Union counties. He was married to Mrs. Catharine Trippett at Queen City, Adams county, Iowa, June 21, 1870.
ref: 1900, Iowa State Medical Society, Transactions:
text: Well developed in vicinity of Queen City, Cass County, Tex., in which area it was described by Kennedy (1892).
ref: 1966, Geological Survey Bulletin, page 3174:
text: The proposed improvement consists of the reconstruction of U.S. Highway 59 from F.M. 2791 in Queen City, Cass County, Texas , North to 2.4 miles North of the Sulphur River in Bowie County, Texas.
ref: 1970, US-59 Reconstruction, Queen City to Sulphur River: Environmental Impact Statement, page 2:
glosses: A former city in Adams County, Iowa, United States.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Bangor, Maine.
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Buffalo, New York, so-called as it was once the largest city along the Great Lakes.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Charlotte, North Carolina, named for British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Cincinnati, Ohio.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Clarksville, Tennessee.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Cumberland, Maryland, historically, for being at one time the second largest city in Maryland.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Denver, Colorado, often referred to as the "Queen City of the Plains".
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Dickinson, North Dakota
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Allentown, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Manchester, New Hampshire, referred to as the “Queen City” due to it being larger than than New Hampshire’s capital, Concord.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Meridian, Mississippi, so-named either because it was an important stop on the Queen and Crescent rail line (itself deriving from Cincinnati's designation as Queen City) or because a "gypsy queen" Kelly Mithcell is buried there.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, as regina is Latin for "queen"; the city was renamed (from Wascana) in honour of Queen Victoria, who was the British monarch at the time.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Seattle, Washington, so-named in 1869 by real estate developers who heralded it as "the Future Queen City of the Pacific".
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Springfield, Missouri.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, named after Queen Victoria who was the British monarch at the time of the settlement's founding (1843).
glosses: A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
Burlington, Vermont.