Definitions for kansas city

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

Kan′sas Cit′y(n.)

  1. a city in W Missouri, at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers. 441,259.

    Category: Geography (places)

  2. a city in NE Kansas, adjacent to Kansas City, Mo. 160,630.

    Category: Geography (places)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. Kansas City(noun)

    a city in western Missouri situated at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River; adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas

  2. Kansas City(noun)

    a city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri

Wiktionary

  1. Kansas City(ProperNoun)

    A large city straddling the border between Kansas and Missouri, USA.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Kansas City

    two contiguous towns on the S. bank of the Missouri River, 280 m. W. of St. Louis, are so called. The larger and more easterly one (164) is the second city of Missouri; an important railway centre, and distributes the agricultural products of a large region; has pork-packing industries and iron manufactures. The smaller, westerly city (51), is in Kansas, the largest town of that State; has a remarkable elevated railway.


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