Grand Rapids

G0221400 (grănd) A city of west-central Michigan on the Grand River west-northwest of Lansing. Founded in 1826 on the site of an Ottawa village, it grew as a furniture-manufacturing center.

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n (Placename) (functioning as singular) a city in SW Michigan: electronics, car parts. Pop: 195 601 (2003 est)

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n. a city in SW Michigan. 188,242.

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Grand Rapids - a city in west central Michigan; noted for manufacturing furnitureGreat Lakes State, Michigan, Wolverine State, MI - a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

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city (1990 pop. 189,126), seat of Kent co., SW central Mich., on the Grand River; inc. 1850. The second largest city in the state, it is a distribution, wholesale, and industrial center for an area that yields fruit, dairy products, farm produce, gypsum, and gravel. Furniture manufacturing (begun in 1859) remains important. Among the city's other manufactures are appliances, electronic equipment, automotive parts, aircraft and space navigation systems, and paper products. It has the Gerald R. Ford Museum, art and furniture museums, a botanical garden, a symphony orchestra, and an opera company. Also in Grand Rapids are Aquinas College, Calvin College, and several seminaries.

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a city in SW Michigan: electronics, car parts. Pop.: 195 601 (2003 est.)

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