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LAND OF OPPORTUNITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Land of Opportunity mean? 

LAND OF OPPORTUNITY (noun)
  The noun LAND OF OPPORTUNITY has 1 sense:

1. a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil Warplay

  Familiarity information: LAND OF OPPORTUNITY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAND OF OPPORTUNITY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Land of Opportunity"):

Hot Springs National Park (a national park in Arkansas featuring ancient hot springs; bathing is said to have therapeutic effects)

Fayetteville (a university town in northwestern Arkansas in the Ozarks)

Fort Smith (a town in western Arkansas on the Arkansas River at the Oklahoma border)

Hot Springs (a town in west central Arkansas; a health resort noted for thermal springs)

Jonesboro (a town in northeast Arkansas)

capital of Arkansas; Little Rock (the state capital and largest city of Arkansas in the central part of Arkansas on the Arkansas River)

Pine Bluff (a town in southeast central Arkansas on the Arkansas River)

Texarkana (a town in southwest Arkansas on the Texas border adjacent to Texarkana, Texas)

Arkansas; Arkansas River (a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River)

Ouachita; Ouachita River (a river that rises in western Arkansas and flows southeast into eastern Louisiana to become a tributary of the Red River)

Ozark Mountains; Ozark Plateau; Ozarks (an area of low mountains in northwestern Arkansas and southeastern Missouri and northeastern Oklahoma)

Saint Francis; Saint Francis River; St. Francis; St. Francis River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that rises in Missouri and flows southeastward through Arkansas)

White; White River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri)

Holonyms ("Land of Opportunity" is a part of...):

America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)

Holonyms ("Land of Opportunity" is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Many hands make light work." (English proverb)

"Not every sweet root give birth to sweet grass." (Native American proverb, tribe unknown)

"Man's schemes are inferior to those made by heaven." (Chinese proverb)

"Anyone who lives will know trying times." (Corsican proverb)



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