Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A state of the east-central United States. It was admitted as the 15th state in 1792. Daniel Boone's Transylvania Company made the first permanent settlement in the area in 1775. By the Treaty of Paris (1783) the territory became part of the United States. Frankfort is the capital and Louisville the largest city.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun One of the United States.
  • proper noun (Bot.) a valuable pasture and meadow grass (Poa pratensis), found in both Europe and America. See under Blue grass.
  • proper noun (Bot.) a tall North American tree (Gymnocladus Canadensis) with bipinnate leaves. It produces large woody pods containing a few seeds which have been used as a substitute for coffee. The timber is very valuable.

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  • proper noun A state of the United States of America. Capital: Frankfort; largest city: Louisville. Formally known as the Commonwealth of Kentucky, one of four such states known as Commonwealths.
  • proper noun A village on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses

Etymologies

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Unclear. Possibly from Iroquoian kenhtake, meaning prairie.

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Examples

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  • KENTUCKY DEMOCRATIC PARTY: I think that you're seeing in Democrats in Kentucky a real quiet resolve to make sure that this vote that they have makes a difference.

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  • JERRY LUNDERGAN, CLINTON CAMPAIGN KENTUCKY CO-CHAIR: We need to send Hillary Clinton out of Kentucky with the biggest majority that any state could ever have done.

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  • JEREMY HORTON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, KENTUCKY DEMOCRATIC PARTY: I think that you're seeing in Democrats in Kentucky a real quiet resolve to make sure that this vote that they have makes a difference.

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  • KENTUCKY HOME by Stephen Foster The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home, 'Tis summer, the people are gay; The corn-top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom, While the birds make music all the day.

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  • KENTUCKY: "U.S. Senate hopeful Trey Grayson portrayed his main Republican rival Monday as a 'grandstander' who could lose sight of Kentucky in favor of the tea party movement as candidates made their final push before the state's primary election Tuesday," the

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  • MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME by Stephen Foster The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home, 'Tis summer, the people are gay; The corn-top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom, While the birds make music all the day.

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  • KENTUCKY HOME by Stephen Foster The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home, 'Tis summer, the people are gay; The corn-top's ripe and the meadow's in the bloom, While the birds make music all the day.

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  • KENTUCKY Six Dead After Man Shoots Wife, Others in Trailer Park Nothing seemed amiss when Robert Collins heard someone had fired gunshots in his trailer park in rural eastern Kentucky.

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