🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

피오리아

Pronunciation / Transliteration: pioria

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Peoria/piˈɔːri.ə/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #15000 frequency
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"피오리아는 미국 일리노이 주의 도시이다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A city located in central Illinois, United States, situated along the Illinois River.

    "He traveled to Peoria for the corporate convention."
  2. 2

    Used proverbially in American culture to represent average, mainstream American public opinion or demographic testing.

    "The marketing campaign had to pass the test of whether it would play in Peoria."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Illinois people, an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe. The term historically refers to the indigenous group and was later adopted as a prominent city name in Illinois, eventually entering American cultural lexicon as a prototypical symbol of average American working-class demographics.

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