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ROCK ISLAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("Rock Island" is a part of...):
IL; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State (a midwestern state in north-central United States)