Meanings
- A large metropolitan area straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA. Kansas City is split into two separate cities:
- A city in Missouri, United States and one of the two county seats of Jackson County.
Road diets are now an almost automatic part of the process in Kansas City whenever a street is up for repaving.
2025 April 21, Jeff McMurray, “Trump’s transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using ‘road diets’ to slow speeders”, in AP News, archived from the original on 26 Apr 20251 more example
On the July day that she put out a music video featuring Taylor Lautner, an ex-boyfriend, the actor backflipped across the stage in Kansas City, Mo., and paid Swift effusive tribute — “not just for the singer you are,” Lautner said, “but for the human you are.”
2023 August 5, Ben Sisario, “How Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour Conquered the World”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2023 - A city, the county seat of Wyandotte County, Kansas.
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounA city in Missouri, United States and one of the two county seats of Jackson County.
proper nounThe Kansas City Roos, the athletic program of the University of Missouri–Kansas City (whose academic brand is UMKC).
Translations
Arabic كانساس سيتي
- كانساس سيتي (Kānsās sītī)a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Chinese Mandarin 堪薩斯城 /堪萨斯城
- 堪薩斯城 /堪萨斯城 (Kānsàsī chéng)a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Esperanto Kansasurbo
- Kansasurboa large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
French Kansas City
- Kansas Citya large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
German Kansas City, Kansas-Stadt
- Kansas Citya large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
- Kansas-Stadta large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Hebrew קנזס סיטי
- קנזס סיטי (Kanzas Siti)a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Italian Kansas City, Città del Kansas
- Kansas Citya large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
- Città del Kansasa large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Japanese カンザスシティ, カンザス市
- カンザスシティ (kanzasu shiti)a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
- カンザス市 (kanzasushi)a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Korean 캔자스시티
- 캔자스시티 (kaenjaseusiti)a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Lithuanian Kanzas-Sitias
- Kanzas-Sitiasa large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Polish Kansas City
- Kansas Citya large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Portuguese Kansas City, Cidade do Kansas
- Kansas Citya large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
- Cidade do Kansasa large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Russian Ка́нзас-Сити
- Ка́нзас-Сити (Kánzas-Siti)a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Spanish Kansas City, Ciudad de Kansas
- Kansas Citya large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
- Ciudad de Kansasa large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Thai แคนซัสซิตี
- แคนซัสซิตีa large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA
Cite this entry
Kansas City. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kansas%20City
“Kansas City.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kansas%20City. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kansas City,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kansas%20City.
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