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MINNESOTA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A midwestern state

Synonyms:

Gopher State; Minn.; Minnesota; MN; North Star State

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Minnesota"):

Voyageurs National Park (a national park in Minnesota having ancient rock outcroppings and evergreen forests)

Bemidji (a town in northern Minnesota)

Duluth (a city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior)

Hibbing (a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range)

Mankato (a town in southern Minnesota)

Minneapolis (largest city in Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river; noted for flour mills; one of the Twin Cities)

Rochester (a town in southeast Minnesota)

Saint Cloud; St. Cloud (a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River; granite quarries)

capital of Minnesota; Saint Paul; St. Paul (capital of the state of Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river adjacent to Minneapolis; one of the Twin Cities)

Twin Cities (nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis)

Virginia (a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range)

Little Sioux River (a river that rises in southwestern Minnesota and flows southwestward to the Missouri River in western Iowa)

Mesabi Range (a range of hills in northeastern Minnesota where rich iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887)

Holonyms ("Minnesota" 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)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The researchers suggest that the slow, incomplete recovery of species on abandoned farmland in Minnesota is likely happening in ecosystems around the world where land has been cleared for agriculture, logging or other human activities.

(Plant biodiversity struggles to return in wake of agricultural abandonment, National Science Foundation)

An instinct toward his future glory had led him, some months before, to the small Lutheran college of St. Olaf in southern Minnesota.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I think it was on the third day that a telegram signed Henry C. Gatz arrived from a town in Minnesota. It said only that the sender was leaving immediately and to postpone the funeral until he came.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)