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Missouri
[ mi-zoor-ee, -zoor-uh ]
noun
- a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). : Jefferson City. : MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- a river flowing from SW Montana into the Mississippi N of St. Louis, Mo. 2,723 miles (4,382 km) long.
- a member of a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Siouan linguistic stock, located on the Missouri River in early historic times and now extinct as a tribe.
Missouri
/ ɪˈʊəɪ /
noun
- a state of the central US: consists of rolling prairies in the north, the Ozark Mountains in the south, and part of the Mississippi flood plain in the southeast, with the Mississippi forming the E border; chief US producer of lead and barytes. Capital: Jefferson City. Pop: 5 704 484 (2003 est). Area: 178 699 sq km (68 995 sq miles) AbbreviationMowith zip codeMO
- a river in the W and central US, rising in SW Montana: flows north, east, and southeast to join the Mississippi above St Louis; the longest river in North America; chief tributary of the Mississippi. Length: 3970 km (2466 miles)
Other 51Թ Forms
- Ѿ·dzܰi· adjective noun
Idioms and Phrases
- from Missouri, Informal. unwilling to accept something without proof; skeptical:
I'm from Missouri—you'll have to show me that you're right.
More idioms and phrases containing Missouri
see from Missouri .Example Sentences
The outbreak — which killed one person and sickened at least 88 more — was linked to romaine lettuce and spanned at least 15 states, including Missouri and Indiana.
Marler Clark also amended five other cases to include Taylor Farms’ romaine lettuce, which sickened over 50 individuals after it was found in salads catered at a high school in St. Louis, Missouri.
Missouri finished in third place and Utah was last.
Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri to sell substantially all its assets.
And so, first of all, we minimized the slavery controversy which convulsed the nation from the Missouri Compromise down to the Civil War.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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