English > Texas: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico. |
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| Synonyms | Lone-Star State, TX, Tex. |
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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 | Gulf States | A region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico |
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| Southwest, southwestern United States | The southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Nevada, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado |
| 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 | Abilene | A city in central Texas |
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| Amarillo | A city in the northern panhandle of Texas |
| Arlington | A city in northern Texas between Dallas and Fort Worth |
| Austin, capital of Texas | State capital of Texas on the Colorado River |
| Beaumont | A city of southeastern Texas near Houston |
| Big Bend | A triangular area in southwestern Texas on the Mexican border |
| Big Bend National Park | A large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife |
| Brazos, Brazos River | A river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico |
| Brownsville | A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande near its mouth into the Gulf of Mexico |
| Bryan | A town of east central Texas |
| Canadian, Canadian River | A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma |
| Chihuahuan Desert | A desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico |
| Chisholm Trail | A former cattle trail from San Antonio in Texas to Abilene in Kansas |
| Colorado, Colorado River | A river in Texas |
| Corpus Christi | A city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico |
| Dallas | A large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields |
| Del Rio | A town in southwest Texas on the Rio Grande to the west of San Antonio |
| El Paso | A city in western Texas on the Mexican border |
| Fort Worth | A city in northeastern Texas (just to the west of Dallas) |
| Galveston | A town in southeast Texas on Galveston Island |
| Galveston Bay | An arm of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas to the south of Houston |
| Galveston Island | An island at the entrance of Galveston Bay |
| Garland | A city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas) |
| Guadalupe Mountains | A mountain range in southern New Mexico and western Texas |
| Guadalupe Mountains National Park | A national park in Texas that has the highest point in Texas |
| Houston | The largest city in Texas |
| Laredo | A city in southern Texas on the Rio Grande |
| Llano Estacado | A large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains |
| Lubbock | A city in northwest Texas to the south of Amarillo |
| Lufkin | A town in eastern Texas |
| McAllen | A town in southern Texas on the Rio Grande |
| Midland | A town in west central Texas |
| Odessa | A city in western Texas |
| Paris | A town in northeastern Texas |
| Pecos, Pecos River | A tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas |
| Plano | A city in northeastern Texas (suburb of Dallas) |
| Red, Red River | A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana |
| Sabine, Sabine River | A river in eastern Texas that flows south into the Gulf of Mexico |
| San Angelo | A town in west central Texas |
| San Antonio | A city of south central Texas |
| Sherman | A town in northeastern Texas near the Oklahoma border |
| Texarkana | A town in northeast Texas adjacent to Texarkana, Arkansas |
| Trinity River | A river in eastern Texas that is formed near Dallas and flows generally southeastward to Galveston Bay |
| Tyler | A town in northeast Texas |
| Victoria | A town in southeast Texas to the southeast of San Antonio |
| Waco | A city in east central Texas |
| Wichita Falls | A city in north central Texas near the Oklahoma border |
| Spanish | Tejas, Texas |
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| Catalan | Texas |
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| Adjectives | Texan | of or relating to or characteristic of Texas or its residents |
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