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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Illinois mean? 

• ILLINOIS (noun)
  The noun ILLINOIS has 3 senses:

1. a midwestern state in north-central United States

2. a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west

3. the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami

  Familiarity information: ILLINOIS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILLINOIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midwestern state in north-central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

IL; Ill.; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Illinois"):

Illinois River (a river in Illinois that flows southwest to the Mississippi River)

Urbana (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign)

capital of Illinois; Springfield (capital of the state of Illinois)

Rock Island (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War)

Rockford (a city in northern Illinois)

Peoria (a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River)

Moline (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River)

East Saint Louis (a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis)

Decatur (a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here)

Chicago; Windy City (largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan)

Champaign (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana)

Carbondale (a town in southern Illinois)

Cairo (a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers)

Little Wabash; Little Wabash River (a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the Wabash River)

Holonyms ("Illinois" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Illinois" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Illinois" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)

 Context examples 

The race was held in the United States city of Chicago, Illinois.

(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)

The area in the United States comprised of the following states: Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.

(Central Midwest States, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign show that using biofuel corn doesn't completely offset the environmental effects of producing that corn.

(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)

The scientists used the Free Air Concentration Enrichment facility at the University of Illinois to track the real-world consequences of higher atmospheric ozone levels in an agricultural field.

(Study finds rising ozone a hidden threat to corn, National Science Foundation)

A census division of the United States consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

(East North Central States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

But now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago have proposed a design solution that could bring artificial leaves out of the lab and into the environment.

(Artificial Leaves Convert CO2 to Fuel 10 Times More Efficient Than Nature, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For the first time, chemists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have used a path-breaking optical imaging technique to pinpoint cholesterol's location and movement within the cell membrane.

(Researchers Zero-In on Cholesterol's Role in Cells, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Nosopharm, a biotechnology company based in Lyon, France, are part of an international team reporting on the discovery of a new class of antibiotics.

(A New Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug Resistance, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A census region of the United States consisting of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota.

(Midwestern United States Census Region, NCI Thesaurus)

"The two vital micronutrients are highly protective and they decrease blood pressure," Maria Argos, study author and assistant professor at the School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago.

(Micronutrients can counter lead effects in blood pressure, SciDev.Net)