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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 bike
  2. quad bikes
  3. Quad Citian
  4. Quad Citians
  5. Quad Cities
  6. Quad City
  7. quad com
  8. Quad comm
  9. Quad Committee
  10. quad hockey
  11. quad meet

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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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