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KENTUCKY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses
Synonyms:
Bluegrass State; Ken.; Kentucky; KY
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Kentucky"):
Mammoth Cave National Park (a national park in Kentucky having a large cavern and an underground river)
Bowling Green (a town in southern Kentucky)
capital of Kentucky; Frankfort (the capital of Kentucky; located in northern Kentucky)
Lexington (a city in eastern Kentucky; noted for raising thoroughbred horses)
Louisville (the largest city in Kentucky; located in north central Kentucky on the Ohio river; site of the Kentucky Derby)
Owensboro (a town in northwestern Kentucky on the Ohio River; a tobacco market)
Paducah (a town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River)
Cumberland; Cumberland River (a river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky)
Tennessee; Tennessee River (a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary of the Ohio River in western Kentucky)
Holonyms ("Kentucky" 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)
