Associations to the word «Peoria»

Wiktionary

PEORIA, proper noun. A particular city in Illinois, used to represent a typical United States city.
PEORIA, noun. A member of a Native American tribe, historically part of the Illinois Confederation.

Dictionary definition

PEORIA, noun. A city in central Illinois on the Illinois River.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne