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Grand Forks

Grand Forks proper noun: a city, the county seat of Grand Forks County, North Dakota.

Proper noun

Grand Forks

  1. A city, the county seat of Grand Forks County, North Dakota.
  2. A former town in Shoshone County, Idaho, destroyed by fire in 1910.
  3. A township in Polk County, Minnesota.
  4. A city in Boundary Country district, West Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Granby and Kettle Rivers.
  5. A ghost town in Yukon, Canada.

Origin of Grand Forks

The area of the city in North Dakota was known as "Les Grandes Fourches" (The Grand Forks) by French fur traders, referring to the confluence of the Red River of the North and Red Lake River.

Words formed from Grand Forks

Questions about Grand Forks

What does Grand Forks mean?
Grand Forks means a city, the county seat of Grand Forks County, North Dakota.
What part of speech is Grand Forks?
Grand Forks is a proper noun.

Words near Grand Forks in the dictionary

  1. grand finale
  2. grand finales
  3. grand finals
  4. grand fir
  5. grand firs
  6. Grand Forks
  7. Grand Forks County
  8. grand fromage
  9. grand fromages
  10. Grand Gedeh
  11. grand guard

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