Motor City
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- proper noun
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Motor City
- In only 15 minutes a night, Andre Drummond, the big question mark out of Connecticut, is impressing up in the Motor City.
- Motor City, Detroit
- Motor City Bowl
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On Saturday, September 29, the annual Motor City Black Age of Comics (MCBAC) will convene at Youthville in Detroit.
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Stay up to date with the latest Detroit Tigers content by following Motor City Bengals on Twitter and Facebook.
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I was embarrassed then and for years would never mention to anyone I was from the Motor City.
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Motor City is rising from the ashes, slowly, one square foot at a time.
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She has been married to her husband for 2 years and lives in the heart of Motor City in Michigan.
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Even if the city is full of empty buildings, I still feel in awe of the sights in the Motor City.
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In fact, they helped pave a path that allowed the automobile industry to flourish in the Motor City.
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This is the fifth year for Motor City Black Age of Comics, started in 2008 by creator and owner of Urban Style Comics, Andre Batts.
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Batts and partner Agbeyome Allen took up the cause to bring the black comic convention concept home to the "D" in 2008, and the Motor City Black Age of Comics was born.
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Assembly lines rolled out millions of Fords, Chryslers, Chevys, and Buicks and made Motor City—Detroit, Michigan—the capital of the global car industry.
Synonyms
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A large city in southeastern Michigan by the river known for car factories
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A nickname for Detroit known for its car factories and soul music
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'motor' (relating to engines/automobiles) + 'city' (urban area) yields the interpretable idea of a city associated with motors or the automobile industry. While identifying the conventional referent (Detroit) requires world-knowledge, the basic meaning is transparently derivable from the constituents for learners who know both words.
Etymology
The nickname Motor City comes from Detroit's many car factories and assembly plants. The word motor points to engines and cars and city to the place where they were made, so the name means 'the center of the car industry'.