Kansas City en · PROPN
Pronunciation
- [kæ̃ˈsɪɾi] locally
- (US) audio
- /ˌkænzəˈsɪti/
Meanings
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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.
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: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 2025:
- A large metropolitan area straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA. Kansas City is split into two separate cities: ▸ A city, the county seat of Wyandotte County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Washington County, Oregon.
- The Kansas City Roos, the athletic program of the University of Missouri–Kansas City (whose academic brand is UMKC).
Deriveds
Kansas City shuffle · Kansas City barbecue sauce
Synonyms
KCMO (Missouri) · KSC · KC · KCM (Missouri) · KCKS (Kansas) · KCK (Kansas)
Translations (24)
it Kansas City (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · ko 캔자스시티 (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · sh Kansas City (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · ka კანზას-სიტი (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · es Kansas City (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · de Kansas City (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · pl Kansas City (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · ru Ка́нзас-Сити (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · pt Cidade do Kansas (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · eo Kansasurbo (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · ja カンザスシティ (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · he קנזס סיטי (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · ja カンザス市 (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · it Città del Kansas (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · de Kansas-Stadt (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · gl Cidade de Kansas (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · fr Kansas City (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · pt Kansas City (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · es Ciudad de Kansas (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · gl Kansas City (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · ar كانساس سيتي (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · th แคนซัสซิตี (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · cmn 堪薩斯城 /堪萨斯城 (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA) · lt Kanzas-Sitias (a large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA)