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Kenosha

Syllables: Ke·no·sha/kəˈnoʊʃə/

Kenosha proper noun: a city, the county seat of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.

kenosha: a city, the county seat of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States
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Proper noun

Kenosha

  1. A city, the county seat of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
    • Rittenhouse was acquitted in November of first-degree intentional homicide and four other felony charges related to the Kenosha shootings that left two men dead and a third man injured.2022 January 10, Omar Jimenez, Kelly McCleary, “Dominick Black, who bought Kyle Rittenhouse the gun used in Kenosha shootings, has taken a plea deal”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2022

Origin of Kenosha

From Ojibwe ginoozhe or an older form of Potawatomi gnozhé, meaning “pike” or “pickerel”.

Words formed from Kenosha

Words that rhyme with Kenosha

Questions about Kenosha

What does Kenosha mean?
Kenosha means a city, the county seat of Kenosha County, Wisconsin, United States.
What part of speech is Kenosha?
Kenosha is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Kenosha?
Kenosha is pronounced /kəˈnoʊʃə/ (US).

Words near Kenosha in the dictionary

  1. kenopsia
  2. Kenora
  3. Kenora District
  4. Kenorland
  5. kenoses
  6. Kenosha
  7. Kenosha County
  8. kenosis
  9. kenotheme
  10. kenothemes
  11. kenotic

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