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minneapolis

/mɪniˈæpəlɪs/

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What does minneapolis mean?

proper noun

  1. The largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County.
  2. A city, the county seat of Ottawa County, Kansas, United States.

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Yet Fort Snelling was nearly fifty years in the future and St. Paul and Minneapolis were dreams undreamed.
Elbert HubbardJohn Jacob AstorProject Gutenberg ebook #412
The Mississippi makes St. Paul and Minneapolis about all the prosperity they have, gives them power to turn their mills.
Ralph Albert ParletteThe University of Hard KnocksProject Gutenberg ebook #455
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She followed him as far as Minneapolis, and there the chief advised her to remain, for he feared the jealousy of some of his many wives.
Charles A. EastmanIndian Heroes and Great ChieftainsProject Gutenberg ebook #336
One day Minneapolis happened to be spoken of, and Conwell happened to remember that he organized, when he was a lawyer in that city, what became the first Y.M.C.A. branch there.
Russell H. ConwellAcres of Diamonds: Our Every-day OpportunitiesProject Gutenberg ebook #368
"My brother Willard and his family--farm at Kankakee. Hazard Lapham and his wife--Baptist preacher in Kansas. Jim and his three girls--milling business at Minneapolis. Ben and his family--practising medicine in Fort Wayne."
William Dean HowellsThe Rise of Silas LaphamProject Gutenberg ebook #154