Poughkeepsie

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/pəˈkɪpsi/

proper noun

A city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A city, the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, United States.

    Back in the days when Poughkeepsie was a company town and the company was International Business Machines, it wasn't unusual for 18-year-olds in Poughkeepsie to go straight from high school to I.B.M.

    1994 October 30, Penny Singer, “Bob Detmer, a Visionary Video Maker”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2022

Origin

From a word in Wappinger Munsee, roughly U-puku-ipi-sing (“the reed-covered lodge by the little-water place”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with Poughkeepsie

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Cite this entry
APA

Poughkeepsie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Poughkeepsie

MLA

“Poughkeepsie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Poughkeepsie. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Poughkeepsie,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Poughkeepsie.

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