Chicago
pronunciation
How to pronounce Chicago in British English:
UK [ʃɪˈkɑːgəʊ]
How to pronounce Chicago in American English:
US [ʃəˈkɑˌgoʊ]
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- Noun:
- largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan
- a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops
Word Origin
- Chicago (n.)
- town founded in 1833, named from a Canadian French form of an Algonquian word, either Fox /sheka:ko:heki "place of the wild onion," or Ojibwa shika:konk "at the skunk place" (sometimes rendered "place of the bad smell"). The Ojibwa "skunk" word is distantly related to the New England Algonquian word that yielded Modern English skunk (n.). Related: Chicagoan.
Example
- 1. Protesters held sizable gatherings in chicago and los angeles .
- 2. Asked the man from chicago .
- 3. Chicago has revolutionized retailing before .
- 4. Chicago lions simply got more game .
- 5. Comparisons are often made with chicago .