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Poughkeepsie

/pəˈkɪpsi/

Poughkeepsie proper noun: a city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.

Proper noun

Poughkeepsie

  1. A city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.
    • Back in the days when Poughkeepsie was a company town and the company was International Business Machines, it wasn't unusual for 18-year-olds in Poughkeepsie to go straight from high school to I.B.M.1994 October 30, Penny Singer, “Bob Detmer, a Visionary Video Maker”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2022

Origin of Poughkeepsie

From a word in Wappinger Munsee, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing (“the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place”).

Words formed from Poughkeepsie

Words that rhyme with Poughkeepsie

Questions about Poughkeepsie

What does Poughkeepsie mean?
Poughkeepsie means a city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.
What part of speech is Poughkeepsie?
Poughkeepsie is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Poughkeepsie?
Poughkeepsie is pronounced /pəˈkɪpsi/.

Words near Poughkeepsie in the dictionary

  1. poufy
  2. pough
  3. poughite
  4. Poughkeepsian
  5. Poughkeepsians
  6. Poughkeepsie
  7. Poughs
  8. Pougny
  9. poui
  10. Pouilly-Fuissé
  11. Pouilly-Fuissés

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