windy city

1. 1.

   largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan

   SynonymsChicago

   Broadercityport

   Part ofIllinois

   PartsSears TowerUniversity of Chicago

Questions about windy city

What does windy city mean?

windy city means "largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan".

What is another word for windy city?

Close synonyms include Chicago. 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 windy city a common word?

windy 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.