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Dubuque

Dubuque proper noun: a surname.

Proper noun

Dubuque (countable and uncountable, plural Dubuques)

  1. A surname.
  2. A city, the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States.
    • So I walked into the Dubuque convent with several gallons of ice cream and immediately began to worry we hadn’t brought enough.2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7
    • On Wednesday, the former president spoke at a “Team Trump Iowa Commit to Caucus Event” hosted at the Jackson County Fairgrounds in Maquoketa, Iowa. He then headed to Dubuque, another Eastern Iowa city, to deliver remarks. Trump largely focused his Dubuque speech on immigration and the border.2023 September 20, Daniel Strauss, Kate Sullivan, Kristen Holmes, “Trump ramps up attention on Iowa even as he keeps one eye on the general election”, in CNN, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2023
  3. An unincorporated community in Barton County and Russell County, Kansas, United States.

Forms of Dubuque

pluralDubuques

Words formed from Dubuque

Questions about Dubuque

What does Dubuque mean?
Dubuque means a surname.
What part of speech is Dubuque?
Dubuque is a proper noun.

Words near Dubuque in the dictionary

  1. dubu
  2. Dubuc
  3. Dubucs
  4. Dubuffetesque
  5. Dubuffetian
  6. Dubuque
  7. Dubuque County
  8. Dubuques
  9. Dubwath
  10. dubwise
  11. Duby

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