noun
a town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑town
• Part Holonyms: ↑Iowa, ↑Hawkeye State, ↑IA
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Dubuque [Dubuque]
a US town on the ↑Mississippi River in the state of ↑Iowa. It is sometimes referred to as the typical example of a small, boring US community. A writer in the ↑New Yorker once said that it was not the magazine for ‘the old lady from Dubuque’.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.