MISSOURI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Missouri mean? 

• MISSOURI (noun)
  The noun MISSOURI has 4 senses:

1. a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union

2. the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis

3. a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri

4. a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri

  Familiarity information: MISSOURI used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSOURI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Missouri"):

Osage; Osage River (a river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River)

Springfield (a city of southwestern Missouri)

Sedalia (a town in east central Missouri)

Gateway to the West; Saint Louis; St. Louis (the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century)

Saint Joseph; St. Joseph (a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express)

Poplar Bluff (a town in southeast Missouri)

Kansas City (a city in western Missouri situated at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River; adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas)

capital of Missouri; Jefferson City (capital of the state of Missouri; located in central Missouri on the Missouri river)

Independence (a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail)

Hannibal (a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain)

Columbia (a university town in central Missouri)

Cape Girardeau (a town in southeast Missouri)

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 ("Missouri" is a part of...):

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))

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 ("Missouri" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Missouri; Missouri River

Context example:

The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

Holonyms ("Missouri" 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)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Missouri" is a kind of...):

Siouan; Sioux (a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Missouri" is a kind of...):

Chiwere (the Siouan language spoken by the Iowa and Oto and Missouri)

 Context examples 

Dr. Emily Albright is a surgical oncologist at the University of Missouri Health Care.

(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)

Mutation of the gene is associated with both spondyloepimetaphyseal dysplasia Missouri type and metaphyseal anadysplasia type 1.

(MMP13 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Thought to be wild albino in origin, this strain was obtained by Carworth farms from a Missouri laboratory.

(CF-1 Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

The area in the United States comprised of the following states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.

(Central Midwest States, NCI Thesaurus)

A census region of the United States consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota.

(Midwestern United States Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)