Usually means: Iconic record label, soulful hits.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word motown:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. motown: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Motown: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Motown: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Motown: Vocabulary.com
  5. Motown, motown: Wordnik
  6. Motown, motown: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Motown: Wiktionary
  8. Motown: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Motown: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. motown: Dictionary.com
  11. Motown: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Motown (album), Motown (disambiguation), Motown: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Motown: Rhymezone
  14. motown: FreeDictionary.org
  15. motown: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Motown: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Motown: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Motown: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. motown: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Motown)

▸ noun:  (informal) Detroit.
▸ noun:  (music, often attributive) A style of popular soul music strongly associated with Motown Records.
▸ noun:  (poker slang) A jack and a five as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.

Similar:
Motor City, Detroit, Mich., Melb, Manchesterdom, Minnie, Memphis rap, motordom, Madchester, Mickeysoft, more...

Opposite:
non-motown, anti-motown, non-urban, non-soul

Phrases:
motown records, motown sound, tamla motown, Universal Motown Records, Motown discography, more...

Adjectives:
old, early, other, tamla, new, classic, many, pre, next, first


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Similar:
Motor City, Detroit, Mich., Melb, Manchesterdom, Minnie, Memphis rap, motordom, Madchester, Mickeysoft, more...

Opposite:
non-motown, anti-motown, non-urban, non-soul

Phrases:
motown records, motown sound, tamla motown, Universal Motown Records, Motown discography, Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall, FC Motown, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, more...

Adjectives:
old, early, other, tamla, new, classic, many, pre, next, first



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