TEXAS Definition & Meaning

texas

[tek-suhs]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

U.S. Nautical.

a deckhouse on a texas deck for the accommodation of officers.
texas deck.

Texas

[tek-suhs]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a state in the southern United States. 267,339 sq. mi. (692,410 sq. km). Austin. TX (for use with zip code), Tex.

Texas

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noun

Abbreviation: Tex.�� TX.��a state of the southwestern US, on the Gulf of Mexico: the second largest state; part of Mexico from 1821 to 1836, when it was declared an independent republic; joined the US in 1845; consists chiefly of a plain, with a wide flat coastal belt rising up to the semiarid Sacramento and Davis Mountains of the southwest; a major producer of cotton, rice, and livestock; the chief US producer of oil and gas; a leading world supplier of sulphur. Capital: Austin. Pop: 22 118 509 (2003 est). Area: 678 927 sq km (262 134 sq miles)

Texas

State in the southwestern United States bordered by Oklahoma to the north, Arkansas and Louisiana to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico to the south, and New Mexico to the west. Its capital is Austin, and its largest city is Houston.

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One of the border states with Mexico; Mexican aliens often cross the border into Texas.

One of the Confederate states during the Civil War.

Long the largest state, it became second largest with the admission of Alaska as the forty-ninth state in 1959.

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Other 51�Թ� Forms

Texan adjective
Texian adjective

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of texas¹

1855–60; after Texas, from the fact that the officers' accommodation was the most spacious on the Mississippi steamboats, on which cabins were named after states

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“When the Mexican team plays, it’s a celebration, right? But no, it wasn’t,” said El Coronel, the nom de guerre of the leader of “Pancho Villa’s Army,” the Mexican national team’s largest supporter group in the U.S. — a group started by Sergio Tristan, a Texas attorney and National Guard colonel who spent 30 months on the frontlines in Iraq as a U.S.

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The teams move on to Arlington, Texas, for their second group-play games Wednesday, with Mexico facing Suriname and the Dominican Republic playing Costa Rica.

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That’s twice as many as New York and three times as many as Texas.

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Years ago, when I first started, we did a number of projects in Texas about how the state was going to get its energy, because it was growing very fast.

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We had an independent advisory group, we had good samples of each of the areas of Texas the utilities served and we had all the options for providing electricity: coal, natural gas, conservation — meaning cutting the need for energy — and renewable energy, especially wind power.

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Texarkana Texas City

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