Definitions

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  • proper noun A state of the United States of America.. Capital Jefferson City; largest city: Kansas City: Postal abbreviation: MO
  • proper noun The longest river in the United States, flowing from Montana to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis.
  • proper noun A Native American tribe that originally lived in the Great Lakes region of United States.
  • proper noun historical An organized territory in the United States during the nineteenth century.

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  • noun a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri
  • noun 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
  • noun a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri
  • noun the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis

Etymologies

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From Miami wimihsoorita ("the people who have dugout canoes"), a term for the inhabitants of the area around the Missouri River.

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Examples

  • CHRISTY, CALLER FROM MISSOURI: I live in Branson, Missouri, and I've got to tell you, there is so much bigotry down here and death threats about Obama and his health care.

    CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2009 2009

  • CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D) MISSOURI: I have to be assured that this is going to bring down the deficit and it's going to bring down health care costs for most Missouri families.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2009 2009

  • CLAIRE MCCASKILL, (D) MISSOURI: I have to be assured that this is going to bring down the deficit and it's going to bring down the cost for mostly Missouri families.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2009 2009

  • CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D), MISSOURI: I have to be assured that this is going to bring down the deficit and it's going to bring down health care cost for most Missouri families.

    CNN Transcript Dec 14, 2009 2009

  • CORPORAL BILL LOWE, MISSOURI STATE HIGHWAY PATROL: Well, over the last 12 hours, as you said, we have said identified an additional suspect and he was taken into custody last night in Kansas City, Missouri by the Jackson County sheriff's office.

    CNN Transcript Nov 13, 2009 2009

  • PETER RAHN, DIRECTOR, MISSOURI, DOT: The stimulus bill is funding work in Missouri that otherwise would not be taking place.

    CNN Transcript Feb 22, 2009 2009

  • LOUIS, MISSOURI: My name is Bob Wilson from St. Louis, Missouri, and my question is, the money that we lose in our IRA, in our pension fund, where does that lost money end up?

    CNN Transcript Mar 17, 2009 2009

  • CLAIRE MCCASKILL (D), MISSOURI: Well, I think what you have to do -- I'm from Missouri.

    CNN Transcript Mar 5, 2008 2008

  • EMANUEL CLEAVER (D), MISSOURI: Missouri is a tough, tough state to win.

    CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2008 2008

  • PETER KINDER, LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR OF MISSOURI: I am actually in a-- in a highway patrol car on a driving tour of Poplar Bluff, Missouri.

    CNN Transcript Mar 20, 2008 2008

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  • See Show me Missouri (Missouri is the "Show Me" state).

    December 17, 2010