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INDIANA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in midwestern United States

Synonyms:

Hoosier State; IN; Ind.; Indiana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Indiana"):

Bloomington (a university town in south central Indiana)

Evansville (a city in southwestern Indiana on the Ohio River)

Fort Wayne (a city in northeastern Indiana)

Gary (a city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan; steel production)

capital of Indiana; Indianapolis (the capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commercial center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race)

Lafayette (a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River)

Muncie (a town in east central Indiana)

South Bend (a city in northern Indiana)

Wabash; Wabash River (a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana)

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

Corn Belt (the midwestern states in the U.S. where corn is grown; Iowa and Illinois are excellent for raising corn and corn-fed livestock)

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States pop artist (born 1928)

Synonyms:

Indiana; Robert Indiana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

Credits

 Context examples: 

We used to think it took years and years to develop high blood pressure, said study author David Haas, M.D., a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, and a practicing OB/GYN doctor.

(First-time pregnancy complications linked to increased risk of hypertension later in life, National Institutes of Health)