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Grand Rapids
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What does Grand Rapids mean?
proper noun
- A city, the county seat of Kent County, Michigan.
- A city, the county seat of Itasca County, Minnesota.
- An unincorporated community in LaMoure County, North Dakota.
More meanings (4)
proper noun
- A village and township in Wood County, Ohio.
- A town in Wood County, Wisconsin. The city of Wisconsin Rapids was also named Grand Rapids, but was renamed in 1920.
- A community in British Columbia.
- A town in Manitoba.
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Grand Rapids is the best loose- head sort--fine for under glass, in frames and early outdoors.
It was after midnight when she left the car at Grand Rapids, and went into the depot to await the coming of day.
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The team with which my brother had driven us through the wilderness had been hired at Grand Rapids for that occasion, and, of course, immediately returned.
When he inherited his father's property, he promptly disposed of it, and, with his mother, founded a home in a splendid residence in the outskirts of Grand Rapids.