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Iowa

[ahy-uh-wuh, ahy-uh-wey]

noun

plural

Iowas 
,

plural

Iowa .
  1. a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,290 sq. mi. (145,790 sq. km). Des Moines. IA (approved esp. for use with zip code), Ia., Io.

  2. a river flowing southeast from northern Iowa to the Mississippi River. 291 miles (470 km) long.

  3. a member of an American Indian people originally of Iowa, Missouri, and Minnesota but now of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas.

  4. the Siouan language spoken by the Iowa Indians.



Iowa

/ ˈɪəʊə /

noun

  1. Abbreviation: Ia.. IA.a state of the N central US, in the Midwest: consists of rolling plains crossed by many rivers, with the Missouri forming the western border and the Mississippi the eastern. Capital: Des Moines. Pop: 2 944 062 (2003 est). Area: 144 887 sq km (55 941 sq miles)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Iowa

  1. State in the midwestern United States bordered by Minnesota to the north, Wisconsin and Illinois to the east, Missouri to the south, and Nebraska and South Dakota to the west. Its capital and largest city is Des Moines.

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A case in point is Iowa Senator Joni Ernst with her notoriously clumsy "we're all going to die" comment and even worse follow-up.

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Her comments about Medicaid cuts during an Iowa town hall sparked a spectator to shout, “But people are going to die,” To which Senator Ernst remarked, “We are all going to die.”

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Iowa is considered conservative, but its voting population has a significantly higher percentage of elderly individuals compared to the rest of the country.

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Febos has taught creative writing in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Iowa for the past five years and considers herself lucky that she’s never felt attracted to her students.

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Its velvety, heart-shaped leaves shield a single burnt-mauve flower at the base, looking more like an orchid from the Florida swamps than something you’d expect to see near the river between Iowa and Illinois.

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