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Quad-City

Quad-City is the attributive form of Quad Cities.

Meaning of Quad Cities

Proper noun

the Quad Cities sg or pl (attributive Quad City or Quad-City)

  1. A region of cities (originally four) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport and Bettendorf in southeastern Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline and East Moline in northwestern Illinois.
    • The total population of the Quad Cities in 1950 was 184,493 while the metropolitan area population was 234,256.1959, Civil Aeronautics Board Reports, volume 28, page 799

Forms of Quad-City

alternative formQuad City

Questions about Quad-City

What is Quad-City the attributive form of?
Quad-City is the attributive form of Quad Cities.

Words near Quad-City in the dictionary

  1. quad skate
  2. quad skates
  3. quad suit
  4. quad suits
  5. quad-
  6. Quad-City
  7. quad-core
  8. quad-demic
  9. quad-demics
  10. Quadaffi
  11. Quadaffy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Quad-City (page history and authors); Quad Cities (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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