Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- The chief river of the United States, rising in the lake region of northern Minnesota and flowing about 3,700 km (2,300 mi) generally southward to enter the Gulf of Mexico through a huge delta in southeast Louisiana. La Salle claimed the entire region for France after he descended to the river's mouth in 1682.
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- noun a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico
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Examples
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Algiers is home to 2,300 people and sits directly across the Mississippi River from the French Quarter.
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The anniversary comes at a time of concern about more flooding in communities along the Mississippi River, which is likely to rise to its highest levels since the 1920s in some parts of Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana.
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The spillway is part of the Corps' multi-state plan, called the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project or MR&T, offering flood protection from Missouri to south Louisiana.
Susan Buchanan: Funds For Reviving the Coast Will Be Lean, Even With BP's Infusion Susan Buchanan 2011
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The spillway is part of the Corps' multi-state plan, called the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project or MR&T, offering flood protection from Missouri to south Louisiana.
Susan Buchanan: Funds For Reviving the Coast Will Be Lean, Even With BP's Infusion Susan Buchanan 2011
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The Mississippi River is a major transportation route for American businesses and farmers to send and receive goods, but its mouth requires constant dredging to remove the silt brought down the river and its tributaries.
Crucial Trade Waterway Under Threat Cameron McWhirter 2010
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The 1811 and 1812 earthquakes on the New Madrid Fault, halfway between St. Louis and Memphis beneath the Mississippi River were the largest ever recorded in the continental United States.
An Earthquake Rattles the Midwest - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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And unfortunately, we think that's going to kind of parallel up toward the Mississippi River, which is really bad news for the storm surge issue.
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It's carried out eventually much of this will go down the Mississippi River, which is way down over there.
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Between the levees that parallel the Mississippi River is a corridor known as the “batture lands.”
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Between the levees that parallel the Mississippi River is a corridor known as the “batture lands”.
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