motor city

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

   SynonymsDetroitMotown

   Broadercityport

   Part ofMichigan

Questions about motor city

What does motor city mean?

motor city 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".

What is another word for motor city?

Close synonyms include Detroit, 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 motor city a common word?

motor city is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.