Green Bay
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3.4
- proper noun
- /ɡriːn beɪ/
- My friend lives in Green Bay and often invites me to explore the local parks.
- Green Bay Packers
Examples
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The Green Bay Packers play their home games at Lambeau Field.
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Our location is important for people working in Green Bay and Appleton, about 20 minutes away.
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In the upcoming game against the Green Bay Packers, they hold the keys to the "win" kingdom.
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Inside the recently determined 2010 Super Bowl Championship, the Green Bay Packers were stated as being the champions.
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We, we drove up to Green Bay to see a soccer game that more or less got rained out at Lambeau Field.
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Coming off its bye, Green Bay's above-average run defense will be rested and ready.
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State Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, is also looking like he will win re-election in the 30th SD.
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I visited Green Bay last summer and enjoyed the beautiful waterfront.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'Green' + 'bay' transparently indicate a geographic place (a bay or a place named for a bay), and English commonly forms place names this way, so a B1 learner who knows the words would likely guess it refers to a location. However, the specific sense here—a city in Wisconsin at the mouth of the Fox River—is not derivable from the constituents alone, so the relation is only partial.
Etymology
Green Bay may come from early French explorers who called the bay 'Baie Verte' because shallow water and plants made the bay look green. The town next to that bay then took the name Green Bay, which is why the name now refers to the city by the green bay.