English > Ala.: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A state in the southeastern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War. |
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| Synonyms | Alabama, Heart of Dixie, Camellia State, AL |
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| Instance of | American state | One of the 50 states of the United States |
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| Member of | Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland | The southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 |
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| Part of | Deep South | The southeastern region of the United States |
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| Gulf States | A region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico |
| United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A. | 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 |
| Parts | Alabama, Alabama River | A river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery |
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| Birmingham, Pittsburgh of the South | The largest city in Alabama |
| Coosa, Coosa River | river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River |
| Decatur | A town in northern Alabama on the Tennessee River |
| Gadsden | An industrial town in north central Alabama |
| Huntsville | A city in northern Alabama |
| Mobile | A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay |
| Mobile, Mobile River | A river in southwestern Alabama |
| Mobile Bay | A bay of the Gulf of Mexico |
| Montgomery, capital of Alabama | The state capital of Alabama on the Mobile River |
| Selma | A town in central Alabama on the Alabama river |
| Tallapoosa, Tallapoosa River | river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River |
| Tombigbee, Tombigbee River | A river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River |
| Tuscaloosa | A university town in west central Alabama |
| Tuskegee | A town in eastern Alabama |
| Region of | Chickamauga, battle of Chickamauga | A Confederate victory in the American Civil War (1863) |
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| Broader | South | The region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line |
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| Spanish | Alabama |
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| Catalan | Alabama |
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