Showing results for Grand Rapids. Search instead for Gait Aids.

Grand Rapids

American

noun

a city in SW Michigan: furniture factories.

adjective

noting or pertaining to mass-produced furniture of generally low quality.

Grand Rapids British

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Grand Rapids

Businessman Kirk Dornbush, 65, staked out the October 8 televised debate between El-Sayed and Rogers in Grand Rapids, wearing a yarmulke and brandishing an "Abdul for US Senate" sign.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Grand Rapids offers that and so much more.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026

“Not much you can do about the yields,” said Yedlin, who had been a doctor and electronic medical records administrator, now living in East Grand Rapids, Mich.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Stevens put up strong numbers in rural parts of the state to supplement her leads in metro Detroit, though that wasn’t quite enough to offset the margins El-Sayed posted in Grand Rapids and Ann Arbor.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

I could ditch them when I got to Grand Rapids.

From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023