Battle Creek

proper noun

A city in northwest Calhoun County, Michigan, United States.

Meanings

proper noun
  1. A city in northwest Calhoun County, Michigan, United States.
    1 more example

    In the young United States, one of the loudest anti-masturbation voices was John Harvey Kellogg, a physician and devout Seventh-Day Adventist in Battle Creek, Michigan. […] While Kellogg worked as the superintendent at Michigan’s Battle Creek Sanitarium, he hit upon a few different healthy eating ideas.

    2023 January 18, Matt Soniak, “When Corn Flakes Were Part of an Anti-Masturbation Crusade”, in Mental Floss, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2025
  2. A river in Michigan, a tributary of the Kalamazoo River.
  3. historicalThe former name of Pleasant Grove, a city in Utah.

Synonyms & antonyms

Cite this entry
APA

Battle Creek. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Battle%20Creek

MLA

“Battle Creek.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Battle%20Creek. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Battle Creek,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Battle%20Creek.

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