Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Illinois on a bluff above the Mississippi River.
- A city of eastern Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. John and John Quincy Adams were born here.
- Josiah,American Revolutionary patriot who traveled to England to present the colonists' grievances (1774–1775). His son Josiah (1772–1864) served as a US representative from Massachusetts (1805–1813), as mayor of Boston (1823–1829), and as president of Harvard University (1829–1845).
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- proper noun A
surname . - proper noun An
American malegiven name transferred from the surname. - proper noun Any of a number of places in the U.S.A. named after people with the surname.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun American patriot who presented the colonists' grievances to the English king (1744-1775)
Etymologies
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Examples
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QUINCY - A veterans 'home in the Mississippi River city of Quincy will be getting state help with $2.4 million in improvements.
News 2010
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Friday, April 10, 2009 at 12: 05 p.m. QUINCY, Illinois - A late Thursday night fire at 3rd and Hampshire in Quincy left major damage to the Peppco uniform company and the Grandview Church youth ministry building.
KHQA - Local News 2009
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Thursday, August 06, 2009 at 3: 44 p.m. QUINCY, ILL -- There is good news tonight about the mail sorting center in Quincy.
KHQA - Local News 2009
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With an unassuming name, this U.S. pilot who was born in Quincy, Illinois, was the captain who dropped the first atomic bomb from his plane, the Enola Gay (named after his mother), on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
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Across America, and here in Quincy Massachusetts, people took to the streets — and celebrated.
“We’d won the war! It was over.” « Quincy Remembers World War II 2009
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Quigg and Keskinidis, pleaded not guilty Monday in Quincy District Court to breaking and entering during the day, larceny of more than $250 and wanton destruction of property worth more than $250.
'Gone Baby Gone' Actress Jill Quigg Arrested For Breaking <![CDATA[&]]> Entering Katy Hall 2010
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Quigg and Keskinidis, pleaded not guilty Monday in Quincy District Court to breaking and entering during the day, larceny of more than $250 and wanton destruction of property worth more than $250.
'Gone Baby Gone' Actress Jill Quigg Arrested For Breaking & Entering AP 2010
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Obama will be speechifying in Quincy (IL) this coming week.
Alexi Giannoulias pouting about the Broadway Bank thing. | RedState 2010
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Bill Brady told an audience in Quincy, Ill. that he would balance the state's devastated budget in his first year in office.
Bill Brady Says He'll Balance Budget In One Year With 10% Spending Cut The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Across America, and here in Quincy Massachusetts, people took to the streets — and celebrated.
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