Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the state or residents of Mississippi or the Mississippi River.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being the period of geologic time from about 359 to 318 million years ago, the fifth period of the Paleozoic Era. The Mississippian Period is characterized by the submergence of extensive land areas under shallow seas and by the appearance of primitive conifers.
- adjective Of or relating to a Native American culture flourishing throughout the southern Mississippi Valley and much of southeastern North America from about 1000 AD until contact with Europeans, characterized especially by the establishment of permanent towns, settled agriculture, regional chiefdoms, and the construction of large earthworks serving as ceremonial centers.
- noun A native or resident of Mississippi.
- noun The Mississippian Period.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the scheme of classification and nomenclature of the rocks adopted by the United States Geological Survey, the purely marine sedimentation of the early or Lower Carboniferous rocks of the interior or Mississippi basin.
- Of or pertaining to the State of Mississippi or the river Mississippi.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Mississippi, one of the Gulf States of the United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A geological period extending from from 310 million to 345 million years ago; it was associated with an increase of land areas, the presence of primitive ammonites, and emergence of winged insects; called also
Missippian period andLower Carboniferous period . - proper noun A resident of Mississippi.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective geology Of a
geologic epoch within theCarboniferous period from about 359 to 318 million years ago; marked byglaciation and the appearance of the firsttrees . - adjective Of, or pertaining to,
Mississippi or its culture. - proper noun geology The Mississippian epoch.
- noun An inhabitant or a resident of the state of
Mississippi .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun from 345 million to 310 million years ago; increase of land areas; primitive ammonites; winged insects
- noun a native or resident of Mississippi
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The 11-term Mississippian has a reputation as a maverick, more so since Mr. Obama's inauguration.
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This trend is called the Mississippian shale oil trend.
unknown title 2011
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I then move on to Elvis’ origins in Mississippian poverty, and his visits to Sun Records in Memphis to record his own voice using their old disc cutting machine (this ties in nicely with the earlier session on the development of recording technology: magnetic tape started to be used in the late 1940s, so Sun were making use of the last generation of direct-to-disc recording).
Teaching Elvis « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2007
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He marched his army through the center of what we now call Mississippian cultures; they amazed him with their artistry, courage, and sophistication—even if he despised them as “damned” pagans.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Archaeologists tend to call Mississippian polities “chiefdoms” and sometimes “paramount chiefdoms” depending upon the geographic extent and number of subordinate towns under their control.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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While not shale, the formation known as the Mississippian--an easier-to-drill rock--requires the same drilling techniques, including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, that have brought about the biggest boom in U.S. drilling in a generation.
SandRidge Inks $1 Billion Drilling Pact With Repsol Ryan Dezember 2011
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He marched his army through the center of what we now call Mississippian cultures; they amazed him with their artistry, courage, and sophistication—even if he despised them as “damned” pagans.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Archaeologists tend to call Mississippian polities “chiefdoms” and sometimes “paramount chiefdoms” depending upon the geographic extent and number of subordinate towns under their control.
Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011
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Additional important archaeological material, such as Mississippian items from the Spiro Mound of eastern Oklahoma, was acquired from other collectors in the 1920s and '30s.
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A book on Mississippi by a Mississippian at this particular moment in our history raises the inevitable question: What kind of Mississippian?
A Southern Conscience Woodward, C. Vann 1964
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