Des Moines
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- proper noun
- /dɛs mɔɪn/
- Denny was born on 11 March 1889 in Des Moines, Iowa.
- Des Moines, Iowa
- Des Moines Independent School
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Watch on YouTubeWell, once in the Oval Office, I asked him about his youth and Des Moines when he was a young sportscaster.
- Well, once in the Oval Office, I asked him about his youth and Des Moines when he was a young sportscaster.
- And you know, outside of Des Moines, though, and they're like, damn, they fucking these bats are getting beat, Damn these bats.
Examples
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Des Moines, Iowa: Senior Golf Tournament Drives One Ton of Recyclable Plastic into Balers.
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Everybody wants to go to Des Moines.
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Why bring up Des Moines again?
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Did I say I went to Des Moines?
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Daddy, did you drive all the way to Des Moines?
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Good evening from Des Moines, Iowa, tonight.
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Caroline moved to Des Moines after school.
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In March of this year, the Iowa Supreme Court rejected the appeal from the city of Des Moines.
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A fairly big crowd had gathered at Java Joe's in downtown Des Moines by 7 AM this morning.
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Several of the Republican presidential candidates will be in Des Moines tonight for a pro-life event.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Des + Moines
Des Moines is a toponym whose parts ('Des', 'Moines') are not productive English words and do not transparently indicate the referent 'capital city of Iowa'. Although the name comes from French (des moines = 'of the monks'), that etymology does not allow a B1 English learner who knows the constituent strings to infer the modern place-meaning, so the expression is opaque.
Etymology
Des Moines may come from the French words des and moines. French explorers named the local river 'Rivière des Moines', which means 'river of the monks', and the city later took that river's name.