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WA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific

Synonyms:

Evergreen State; WA; Wash.; Washington

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "WA"):

Snake; Snake River (a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition)

scablands ((geology) flat elevated land with poor soil and little vegetation that is scarred by dry channels of glacial origin (especially in eastern Washington))

Mount Rainier; Mount Tacoma; Mt. Rainier; Rainier (a mountain peak in central Washington; highest peak in the Cascade Range; (14,410 feet high))

Puget Sound (an inlet of the North Pacific in northwestern Washington State)

Inland Passage; Inside Passage (a naturally protected waterway from Seattle to Skagway in southeastern Alaska)

Columbia; Columbia River (a North American river; rises in southwestern Canada and flows southward across Washington to form the border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into the Pacific; known for its salmon runs in the spring)

Lake Chelan (a narrow very deep lake in central Washington in the Cascade Range)

Adams; Mount Adams (a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (12,307 feet high))

Mount Saint Helens; Mount St. Helens; Mt. St. Helens (an active volcano in the Cascade Range in southwestern Washington; erupted violently in 1980 after 123 years of inactivity)

Yakima (a town in south central Washington)

Walla Walla (a town in southeastern Washington near the Oregon border)

Vancouver (a town in southwestern Washington on the Columbia River across from Portland, Oregon)

Tacoma (a city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle)

Spokane (a city in eastern Washington near the Idaho border)

Seattle (a major port of entry and the largest city in Washington; located in west central Washington on the protected waters of Puget Sound with the snow-capped peaks of the Cascade Range and Mount Rainier visible to the south and east; an aerospace and computer center; site of the University of Washington)

capital of Washington; Olympia (capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound)

Kennewick (a town in southern Washington on the Columbia River)

Bellingham (a town in northwestern Washington on a bay near the Canadian border)

Aberdeen (a town in western Washington)

Cape Flattery (a cape of northwestern Washington)

Olympic National Park (a national park in Washington having rain forests of giant evergreens)

North Cascades National Park (a national park in Washington that is an alpine wilderness area featuring gold rush and logging campsites)

Mount Rainier National Park (a national park in Washington having mountain terrain featuring glaciers and alpine lakes and streams and swamps)

Pacific Northwest (a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia)

Holonyms ("WA" 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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