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NORTH PLATTE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)
Holonyms ("North Platte" is a part of...):
Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska (a midwestern state on the Great Plains)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River
Synonyms:
North Platte; North Platte River
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))
Holonyms ("North Platte" is a part of...):
Centennial State; CO; Colo.; Colorado (a state in west central United States in the Rocky Mountains)
Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska (a midwestern state on the Great Plains)
Equality State; WY; Wyo.; Wyoming (a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east)
