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US
/məˈzɝə, məˈzʊɹi/
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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
- a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri
- a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri
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the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis
The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world
How To Use Missouri In A Sentence
- It's a flat place, not the mind-numbing flatness of western Kansas, there is some roll, some hilliness as the land rises toward the Ozark mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, but still smooth with a horizon that stretches forever. Archive 2010-04-01
- There followed seventeen years of sectarian vagabondage: founded in 1830, the sect settled in Kirtland, Ohio, Jackson, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois, reaching Great Salt Lake Valley, Utah, in 1847.
- A Native American people formerly inhabiting north-central Missouri, with present-day descendants living with the Oto in north-central Oklahoma.
- With the cant of abolitionism well amplified, Missourians took up the cognomen of Southerners more widely, yet still largely as a defense of the peculiar institution.
- (AP) - Jeremy Maclin racked up 275 total yards and scored two touchdowns and Tony Temple added two TDs to lead Missouri to a 52-24 win over Western Michigan on Saturday. USATODAY.com - College Football - W. Michigan vs. Missouri
- Missouri fortunately escaped. opened my trunks and boxes and exposed the articles to dry. found my papers damp and several articles damp. the stoper had come out of a phial of laudinum and the contents had run into the drawer and distroyed a gret part of my medicine in such manner that it was past recovery. waited very impatiently for the return of The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
- That a high school kid from southern Missouri would be dazzled by London is not surprising.
- As in other semirural states -- Missouri and North Carolina come to mind -- Colorado Democrats tend to be conservative Democrats. Obama Targets Swing States
- These organizations, along with leading institutions in botany (the Missouri Garden and the Kew Gardens) and other key organizations (the Marine Biological Laboratory and Harvard Museum Libraries) have joined forces to create the Biodiversity Heritage Library (see my earlier post). Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: AMNH Digital Library
- We mentioned player pianos brieflyand recently in a story about the musician Scott Joplin and his invention of ragtime music in Sedalia, Missouri.