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MISSISSIPPI

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War

Synonyms:

Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Mississippi"):

Tombigbee; Tombigbee River (a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River)

Pearl River (a river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico)

Vicksburg (a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves)

Tupelo (a town in northeast Mississippi)

Natchez (a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River)

Meridian (a town in eastern Mississippi)

capital of Mississippi; Jackson (capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River)

Hattiesburg (a town in southeast Mississippi)

Greenville (a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg)

Columbus (a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama)

Biloxi (an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico)

Yazoo; Yazoo River (a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg)

Domain member region:

siege of Vicksburg; Vicksburg (a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered)

Holonyms ("Mississippi" 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)

Gulf States (a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)

Holonyms ("Mississippi" 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 major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico

Synonyms:

Mississippi; Mississippi River

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Mississippi" 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)

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