GOPHER STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gopher State mean? 

• GOPHER STATE (noun)
  The noun GOPHER STATE has 1 sense:

1. a midwestern state

  Familiarity information: GOPHER STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOPHER STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midwestern state

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Gopher State; Minn.; Minnesota; MN; North Star State

Instance hypernyms:

American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Gopher State"):

Voyageurs National Park (a national park in Minnesota having ancient rock outcroppings and evergreen forests)

Bemidji (a town in northern Minnesota)

Duluth (a city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior)

Hibbing (a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range)

Mankato (a town in southern Minnesota)

Minneapolis (largest city in Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river; noted for flour mills; one of the Twin Cities)

Rochester (a town in southeast Minnesota)

Saint Cloud; St. Cloud (a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River; granite quarries)

capital of Minnesota; Saint Paul; St. Paul (capital of the state of Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river adjacent to Minneapolis; one of the Twin Cities)

Twin Cities (nickname for Saint Paul and Minneapolis)

Virginia (a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range)

Little Sioux River (a river that rises in southwestern Minnesota and flows southwestward to the Missouri River in western Iowa)

Mesabi Range (a range of hills in northeastern Minnesota where rich iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887)

Holonyms ("Gopher State" is a part of...):

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))

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)