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Kewaunee

Kewaunee proper noun: a city, the county seat of Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States, on Lake Michigan.

Proper noun

Kewaunee

  1. A city, the county seat of Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States, on Lake Michigan.

Origin of Kewaunee

Purportedly from an archaic Menominee term for "duck", "Kewāneh".

Words formed from Kewaunee

Questions about Kewaunee

What does Kewaunee mean?
Kewaunee means a city, the county seat of Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States, on Lake Michigan.
What part of speech is Kewaunee?
Kewaunee is a proper noun.

Words near Kewaunee in the dictionary

  1. Kew East
  2. Kew Gardens
  3. Kewa
  4. Kewanee
  5. Kewanmainim
  6. Kewaunee
  7. Kewaunee County
  8. kewchie
  9. kewda
  10. Keweenaw
  11. Keweenaw County

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