Milwaukeeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Perhaps from Ojibwe ominowakiing (“gathering place (by the water)”), or an Algonquin word meaning “the good land”.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /mɪlˈwɔː.kiː/
• (米国発音, without the cot–caught merger) IPA: /mɪlˈwɔk.i/
• (Milwaukee, Northern cities shift) IPA: /məˈwɔk.i/ [məˈwɒki ~ məˈwɑki]
• (Milwaukee, cot–caught merger) IPA: /məˈwɑ.ki/ [məˈwɑki]
• (General American, cot–caught merger, dialects of Canada) IPA: /mɪlˈwɑ.ki/
• (Canada, dialects of the 米国発音) IPA: /mɪlˈwɒk.i/

固有名詞

Milwaukee

1. A number of places in the United States.
   1. The largest city in Wisconsin and the county seat of Milwaukee County.
      • 2019 October 13, “Toronto slang on the rise thanks to city's growing pop culture relevance”, in CBC News‎, archived from the original on 6 July 2022:

        During the Toronto Raptors' championship run, a fan-made sign referred to the opposing Milwaukee Bucks as the "Milwaukee Bucktees," bucktee being an insult deriving from a similar word in Somali.

      • 2020 August 18, James Poniewozik, “A D.N.C. Opening Night for the New Abnormal”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 21 August 2020:

        There was no location, really — most of the convention took place in a Milwaukee of the mind. […] Instead, the teleconvention kept a few standards (like the Bruce Springsteen–soundtracked montage) and borrowed from a grab bag of other TV formats, from talk show to cable news to reality-TV reunion special.

      • 2022 October 26, Christina Zdanowicz, Claudia Dominguez, Lauren M. Johnson and Sara Smart, “The Waukesha victims included an 8-year-old boy, a loving grandmother and a woman excited to make her debut in the Dancing Grannies”, in CNN‎:

        A GoFundMe page was created by the family and talked about how Sorenson spent her last moments celebrating the beauty of life and how she had a true passion for the Milwaukee Dancing Grannies.

   2. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Northampton County, North Carolina.
   3. An unincorporated community in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.

別の表記

• Milwaukie (archaic)

派生語