Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- A state of the southeast United States. It was admitted as the 20th state in 1817. The first settlers in the region (1699) were French, and the area became part of Louisiana. It passed to the British (1763-1779) and then to the Spanish before being ceded to the United States in 1783. The Mississippi Territory, organized in 1798 and enlarged in 1804 and 1813, also included the present state of Alabama. Jackson is the capital and the largest city. Population: 2,920,000.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An old game, similar to bagatelle, in which balls are struck by a cue into pockets at one end of a table, and the players score according to the number above that pocket into which a ball is struck.
Wiktionary
- n. A state of the United States of America.. Capital Jackson: Postal abbreviation: MS
- n. A major river in North America that rises in Minnesota and flows into the Gulf of Mexico.
- interj. Used to count out a time of about one second, especially in games.
- n. A recitation of “Mississippi” (interjection).
WordNet 3.0
- n. 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
- n. a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War
Etymologies
- From Ojibwe misi-ziibi ("great river") or gichi-. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“HALEY BARBOUR (R), MISSISSIPPI: There are some we won't take in Mississippi.”
“HALEY BARBOUR (R), MISSISSIPPI: There are some we will not take in Mississippi.”
“HALEY BARBOUR (R), MISSISSIPPI: There's some we will not take in Mississippi.”
“MISSISSIPPI Lawyers, Witnesses Barred From Katrina Litigation Citing ethical breaches, a federal judge Friday barred a group of Mississippi attorneys once affiliated with plaintiffs lawyer Richard Scruggs from representing policyholders in lawsuits against State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. over Hurricane Katrina damage.”
“JIM HOOD, MISSISSIPPI ATTORNEY GENERAL: If we don't get this stopped, what insurance companies are trying to do, it's going to bankrupt the Gulf coast of Mississippi, Louisiana and parts of Alabama as well.”
“ROB MARCIANO, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR, BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI: Hurricane Katrina roared ashore across the coastline of Mississippi today with 135 mile an hour plus winds.”
“HALEY BARBOUR (R), MISSISSIPPI: They have been a good partner, but we in Mississippi, we know better how to take care of our ourselves.”
“GENE TAYLOR (D), MISSISSIPPI: You can try to throw as much as you can on the backs of Louisianians, but I'm a witness as to what happened in Mississippi.”
“MAYOR RAYBURN WADDELL, PHILADELPHIA, MISSISSIPPI: When you go out of town, and you tell them you're from Philadelphia, Mississippi, and they'll bring up the 1964 murder of the three civil rights people.”
“TRENT LOTT (R), MISSISSIPPI: All of my state, Mississippi, is celebrating today the reunion of Kelly and Tom Hamill, and his rescue or his escape.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘Mississippi’.
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Reduples
Go for it, brothers and sisters! I personally have been suffering long for lack of an open reduplicatives list
happy clappy, bribble-brabble, diddle-daddle, hugger-mugger, kikiriki, Bora-Bora, mahi-mahi, jingle-jangle, knick-knack paddy..., chit-chat, bon-bon, clapperclaw and 292 more...
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US states that are also rivers
Arkansas, Mississippi, Ohio, Missouri, Connecticut, Delaware, Tennessee, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado, Michigan and 4 more...
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Tandem repeat
Words that have an adjacent repeat of three or more letters. I've omitted most words ending in "-inging" where both g's are hard. I've excluded words composed solely of repeats and the plurals of t...
nonsense, chihuahua, sesterterpene, ovotestes, furfuraceous, borborygmi, materteral, tintinnabulating, syringing, zinging, purpurate, seismism and 154 more...
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Monovocalic Proper
Capitalized words with only one of the vowels, with that vowel used at least three times. See also Monovocalics.
Pilgrimism, Photoshop, Taklamakan, Derek Jeter, Ruzuzu, Sagarmatha, Octomom, Sitsiritsit, Dahaka, Dodongo, Attacapa, Atalanta and 449 more...
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TN5 Lesson 56
traveled, Maine, have been to, not at all, different, ski, resort, Switzerland, southern, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and 22 more...
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50 States of the Day
Texas, Florida, Alabama, New York, California, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Maine, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas and 37 more...
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Measure For Measure
Idiomatic, literary & metaphorical standards of measurement.
football field, hop, skip, jump, Mississippi, potato, hair's breadth, coffee spoons, candlemark, dog's age, coon's age, clams and 14 more...
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Triple Doubles and Other Multiples
inopportune, poussette, clapperless, shoelessness, didgeridoo, sheesh, storyteller, frontierless, slaughterhouse, enfeoff, plantagenet, blunderbuss and 32 more...
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