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ARKANSAS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Arkansas"):

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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

Jonesboro (a town in northeast Arkansas)

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

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

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

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

Holonyms ("Arkansas" 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 ("Arkansas" 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:

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

Synonyms:

Arkansas; Arkansas River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Arkansas" is a part of...):

AR; Ark.; Arkansas; Land of Opportunity (a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War)

Centennial State; CO; Colo.; Colorado (a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains)

Kan.; Kansas; KS; Sunflower State (a state in midwestern United States)

OK; Okla.; Oklahoma; Sooner State (a state in south central United States)

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