English > Missouri: 4 senses > noun 1, location| Meaning | A midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union. |
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| Synonyms | Show Me State, MO, Mo. |
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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 | Midwest, middle west, midwestern United States | The north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America) |
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| 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 | Cape Girardeau | A town in southeast Missouri |
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| Columbia | A university town in central Missouri |
| Hannibal | A town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River |
| Independence | A city in western Missouri |
| Jefferson City, capital of Missouri | Capital of the state of Missouri |
| Kansas City | A city in western Missouri situated at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River |
| Osage, Osage River | A river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River |
| Poplar Bluff | A town in southeast Missouri |
| Saint Francis, Saint Francis River, St. Francis, St. Francis River | A tributary of the Mississippi River that rises in Missouri and flows southeastward through Arkansas |
| Saint Joseph, St. Joseph | A town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River |
| Saint Louis, St. Louis, Gateway to the West | The largest city in Missouri |
| Sedalia | A town in east central Missouri |
| Springfield | A city of southwestern Missouri |
| White, White River | A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri |
| Spanish | Missouri, Misuri, Misurí |
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