missouri

Noun
  1. is an instance of: american state - one of the 50 states of the United States
    belongs to: confederacy, confederate states, confederate states of america, dixie, dixieland, south - the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861
    has:
    • cape girardeau - a town in southeast Missouri
    • columbia - a university town in central Missouri
    • hannibal - a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain
    • independence - a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail
    • capital of missouri, jefferson city - capital of the state of Missouri; located in central Missouri on the Missouri river
    • kansas city - a city in western Missouri situated at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River; adjacent to Kansas City, Kansas
    • poplar bluff - a town in southeast Missouri
    • saint joseph, st. joseph - a town in northwest Missouri on the Missouri River; in the 19th century it became the eastern terminus of the pony express
    • gateway to the west, saint louis, st. louis - the largest city in Missouri; a busy river port on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Missouri River; was an important staging area for wagon trains westward in the 19th century
    • sedalia - a town in east central Missouri
    • springfield - a city of southwestern Missouri
    • osage, osage river - a river in Missouri that is a tributary of the Missouri River
    • 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
    • white, white river - a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
    is a part of:
    same as: mo, mo., show me state
  2. is an instance of: river - a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
    is a part of: america, the states, u.s., u.s.a., united states, united states of america, us, usa - 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; achieved independence in 1776
    same as: missouri river
  3. is a type of: siouan, sioux - a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
  4. is a type of: chiwere - the Siouan language spoken by the Iowa and Oto and Missouri

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