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S.C.
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies
Synonyms:
Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "S.C."):
capital of South Carolina; Columbia (capital and largest city in South Carolina; located in central South Carolina)
Charleston (a port city in southeastern South Carolina)
Florence (a town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center)
Greenville (a town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont)
Pee Dee; Pee Dee River (a river that flows through central North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean)
Savannah; Savannah River (a river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic)
Domain member region:
battle of Cowpens; Cowpens (battle in the American Revolution; Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British)
Holonyms ("S.C." 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)
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)
Carolina; Carolinas (the area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina)
Holonyms ("S.C." 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)
