IOWA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Iowa mean? 

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

1. a member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri

2. a state in midwestern United States

3. a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Iowa

  Familiarity information: IOWA used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IOWA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Siouan people formerly living in Iowa and Minnesota and Missouri

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Iowa; Ioway

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

Siouan; Sioux (a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A state in midwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Hawkeye State; IA; Ia.; Iowa

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Iowa"):

Davenport (a city in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River across from Moline and Rock Island)

Cedar Rapids (a city in eastern Iowa)

Clinton (a town in east central Iowa)

capital of Iowa; Des Moines (the capital and largest city in Iowa)

Dubuque (a town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River)

Mason City (a town in north central Iowa)

Ottumwa (a town in southeast Iowa)

Sioux City (a city in northeastern Iowa where the Big Sioux River joins the Missouri)

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

Holonyms ("Iowa" is a part of...):

Corn Belt (the midwestern states in the U.S. where corn is grown; Iowa and Illinois are excellent for raising corn and corn-fed livestock)

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 3

Meaning:

A dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Iowa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Iowa; Ioway

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

Chiwere (the Siouan language spoken by the Iowa and Oto and Missouri)

 Context examples 

A University of Iowa study has identified how excess fat in the heart, a common feature in diabetes and obesity, can harm the cells' essential ability to produce energy.

(Excess Fat Disrupts Heart Cell's Energy System, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The new University of Iowa study is the first to determine the health impacts of BPF and BPS exposure on obesity in humans.

(Do Food Container Chemicals Make Us Fat?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The Center is dedicated to bringing the finest cancer care and research to Iowa and beyond.

(Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

Johnson is at Iowa State University; Wing is at the University of Colorado Boulder.

(Scientists determine early Earth was a ‘water world’ by studying exposed ocean crust, National Science Foundation)

"Jupiter is talking to us in a way only gas-giant worlds can," said Bill Kurth, co-investigator for the Waves instrument from the University of Iowa, Iowa City.

(Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System, NASA)

"The traditional thinking about these exceptionally preserved fossil sites is wrong," said lead author Drew Muscente of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa.

(Fossils may need air to form, National Science Foundation)

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)

It is affiliated with University of Iowa and was designated as an NCI comprehensive cancer center in 2000.

(Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A new study from the University of Iowa shows that a pair of common chemicals that manufacturers use to make plastic food containers, water bottles, and other consumer products do not contribute to obesity to the extent of the chemical it's replacing.

(Do Food Container Chemicals Make Us Fat?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)