detroit

1. 1.

   the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor

   SynonymsMotor CityMotown

   Broadercityport

   Part ofMichigan

Other forms of detroit

plural

detroits·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about detroit

What does detroit mean?

detroit means "the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor".

How many syllables are in detroit?

detroit has 2 syllables: de-troit. The stress falls on "troit". In IPA it is /dɪˈtɹɔɪt/.

What is another word for detroit?

Close synonyms include Motor City, Motown. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is detroit a common word?

detroit is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.