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Milwaukee

UK/mɪlˈwɔː.kiː/US/mɪlˈwɔk.i/

Milwaukee proper noun: the largest city in Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County.

Proper noun

Milwaukee

  1. The largest city in Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County.
    • During the Toronto Raptors' championship run, a fan-made sign referred to the opposing Milwaukee Bucks as the "Milwaukee Bucktees," bucktee being an insult deriving from a similar word in Somali.2019 October 13, “Toronto slang on the rise thanks to city's growing pop culture relevance”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022
    • There was no location, really — most of the convention took place in a Milwaukee of the mind. […] Instead, the teleconvention kept a few standards (like the Bruce Springsteen–soundtracked montage) and borrowed from a grab bag of other TV formats, from talk show to cable news to reality-TV reunion...2020 August 18, James Poniewozik, “A D.N.C. Opening Night for the New Abnormal”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 Aug 2020
  2. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Northampton County, North Carolina.
  3. An unincorporated community in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.

Forms of Milwaukee

alternative form (archaic)Milwaukie

Origin of Milwaukee

Perhaps from Ojibwe ominowakiing (“gathering place (by the water)”), or an Algonquin word meaning “the good land”.

Words formed from Milwaukee

Phrases with Milwaukee

Questions about Milwaukee

What does Milwaukee mean?
Milwaukee means the largest city in Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County.
What part of speech is Milwaukee?
Milwaukee is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Milwaukee?
Milwaukee is pronounced /mɪlˈwɔː.kiː/ (UK).

Words near Milwaukee in the dictionary

  1. Milverton
  2. milves
  3. milvine
  4. Milward
  5. Milwards
  6. Milwaukee
  7. Milwaukee brace
  8. Milwaukee County
  9. Milwaukee goiter
  10. Milwaukee goiters
  11. Milwaukee protocol

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Milwaukee (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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