Dubuque

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proper noun

A surname.

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Meanings

proper nounDubuque (countable and uncountable, plural Dubuques)

plural Dubuques

  1. countableuncountableA surname.
  2. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Dubuque County, Iowa, United States.

    So I walked into the Dubuque convent with several gallons of ice cream and immediately began to worry we hadn’t brought enough.

    2007, Joe Biden, Promises to Keep, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7
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    On Wednesday, the former president spoke at a “Team Trump Iowa Commit to Caucus Event” hosted at the Jackson County Fairgrounds in Maquoketa, Iowa. He then headed to Dubuque, another Eastern Iowa city, to deliver remarks. Trump largely focused his Dubuque speech on immigration and the border.

    2023 September 20, Daniel Strauss, Kate Sullivan, Kristen Holmes, “Trump ramps up attention on Iowa even as he keeps one eye on the general election”, in CNN, archived from the original on 16 Oct 2023
  3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Barton County and Russell County, Kansas, United States.
Cite this entry
APA

Dubuque. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dubuque

MLA

“Dubuque.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dubuque. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Dubuque,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Dubuque.

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