MISSISSIPPI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mississippi mean? 

• MISSISSIPPI (noun)
  The noun MISSISSIPPI has 2 senses:

1. 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

2. a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War

  Familiarity information: MISSISSIPPI used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISSISSIPPI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Mississippi; Mississippi River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

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 state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Magnolia State; Miss.; Mississippi; MS

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Mississippi"):

Hattiesburg (a town in southeast Mississippi)

Yazoo; Yazoo River (a river that rises in west central Mississippi and flows southwest to empty into the Mississippi River above Vicksburg)

Tombigbee; Tombigbee River (a river that rises in northeastern Mississippi and flows southward through western Alabama to join the Alabama River and form the Mobile River)

Pearl River (a river in Mississippi that flows southward to the Gulf of Mexico)

Vicksburg (a town in western Mississippi on bluffs above the Mississippi River to the west of Jackson; focus of an important campaign during the American Civil War as the Union fought to control the Mississippi River and so to cut the Confederacy into two halves)

Tupelo (a town in northeast Mississippi)

Natchez (a town in southwest Mississippi on the Mississippi River)

Meridian (a town in eastern Mississippi)

capital of Mississippi; Jackson (capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River)

Greenville (a town in western Mississippi on the Mississippi River to the north of Vicksburg)

Columbus (a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama)

Biloxi (an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico)

Domain member region:

siege of Vicksburg; Vicksburg (a decisive battle in the American Civil War (1863); after being besieged for nearly seven weeks the Confederates surrendered)

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

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)

Gulf States (a region of the United States comprising states bordering the Gulf of Mexico; Alabama and Florida and Louisiana and Mississippi and Texas)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)

Holonyms ("Mississippi" is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)

 Context examples 

The larger than expected forecast was caused by heavy June rains throughout the Mississippi River watershed.

(2015 Gulf of Mexico dead zone ‘above average’, NOAA)

And he noted that this plant-based phenomenon could have a large influence on flooding in the Mississippi River basin.

(Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation)

The annual dead zone measurement is used by the Gulf of Mexico/Mississippi River Watershed Nutrient Task Force to determine whether efforts to reduce nutrient pollution in the Mississippi River basin are working.

(Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ is the largest ever measured, NOAA)

Scientists at ARS’s Natural Product Utilization Research Unit (NPURU) in Oxford, Mississippi, are investigating whether sorghum’s weed-inhibiting properties can be transferred to other crops like rice and used as a bioherbicide.

(Transferring Sorghum’s Weed-Killing Power to Rice, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

A census division of the United States consisting of Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

(East South Central States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

In many ways, this is similar to what happened in the Mississippi River Basin 100 years ago, and in the Amazon more recently, said study author Rob Spencer of FSU's Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science.

(Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of carbon dioxide, National Science Foundation)

This large dead zone size shows that nutrient pollution, primarily from agriculture and developed land runoff in the Mississippi River watershed is continuing to affect the nation’s coastal resources and habitats in the Gulf.

(Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ is the largest ever measured, NOAA)

The measured size this year is larger than the 5,052 square miles measured last year, indicating that nutrients from the Mississippi River watershed are continuing to affect the nation’s coastal resources and habitats in the Gulf.

(2015 Gulf of Mexico dead zone ‘above average’, NOAA)

He said the twin effects of plant physiology in the U.S. Southeast and precipitation anomalies caused by atmospheric warming farther north in the Mississippi basin are conspiring to juice up the future flood statistics in equal proportion.

(Plant physiology will be major contributor to future river flooding, National Science Foundation)