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Battle Creek

Battle Creek proper noun: a city in northwest Calhoun County, Michigan, United States.

Proper noun

Battle Creek

  1. A city in northwest Calhoun County, Michigan, United States.
    • In the young United States, one of the loudest anti-masturbation voices was John Harvey Kellogg, a physician and devout Seventh-Day Adventist in Battle Creek, Michigan. […] While Kellogg worked as the superintendent at Michigan’s Battle Creek Sanitarium, he hit upon a few different healthy eating...2023 January 18, Matt Soniak, “When Corn Flakes Were Part of an Anti-Masturbation Crusade”, in Mental Floss, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2025
  2. A river in Michigan, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River.
  3. A city in Ida County, Iowa.
  4. A city in Madison County, Nebraska.
  5. (historical) The former name of Pleasant Grove, a city in Utah.

Synonyms of Battle Creek

Words formed from Battle Creek

Questions about Battle Creek

What does Battle Creek mean?
Battle Creek means a city in northwest Calhoun County, Michigan, United States.
What part of speech is Battle Creek?
Battle Creek is a proper noun.

Words near Battle Creek in the dictionary

  1. battle axes
  2. battle buddies
  3. battle buddy
  4. battle bus
  5. battle buses
  6. Battle Creek
  7. Battle Creeker
  8. Battle Creekers
  9. battle cries
  10. battle cruiser
  11. battle cruisers

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