MONTANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Montana mean? 

• MONTANA (noun)
  The noun MONTANA has 1 sense:

1. a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border

  Familiarity information: MONTANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONTANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Mont.; Montana; MT; Treasure State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Montana"):

Yellowstone National Park (the first national park in the United States; located in the border area between Wyoming and Montana and Idaho; spectacular wilderness; famous for Old Faithful geyser and for buffalo and bears)

Bozeman (a town in southwestern Montana; gateway to Yellowstone National Park)

Billings (the largest city in Montana; located in southern Montana on the Yellowstone river)

Butte (a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper)

Great Falls (a town in central Montana on the Missouri river; a center of extensive hydroelectric power)

capital of Montana; Helena (capital of the state of Montana; located in western Montana)

Missoula (a university town in western Montana)

Bighorn; Bighorn River (a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana)

Little Bighorn; Little Bighorn River; Little Horn (a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand)

Little Missouri; Little Missouri River (a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota)

Milk; Milk River (a river that rises in the Rockies in northwestern Montana and flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River)

Sun River (a river in western Montana that flows south and east to join the Missouri River)

Yellowstone; Yellowstone River (a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the Yellowstone National Park)

Domain member region:

Battle of Little Bighorn; Battle of the Little Bighorn; Custer's Last Stand; Little Bighorn (a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command)

Holonyms ("Montana" 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)

 Context examples 

Biologist Scott Mills of the University of Montana, who began studying snowshoe hares in the 1990s, says finding them has become much easier as average winter snow duration has decreased over time.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

The NIH scientists, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana, used cerebral organoids to model how LACV infects the human brain.

(Cerebral organoid model provides clues about how to prevent virus-induced brain cell death, National Institutes of Health)

The NIH scientists, from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Montana facility at Rocky Mountain Laboratories, compared how the environment affects SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV-1, which causes SARS.

(New coronavirus stable for hours on surface, National Institutes of Health)

The next I heard of Frank was that he was in Montana, and then he went prospecting in Arizona, and then I heard of him from New Mexico.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A census division of the United States consisting of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

(Mountain States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

These American bison, commonly called buffalo, came from the National Bison Range in western Montana run by the U.S. federal government.

(Northern Arapaho Tribe welcomes buffalo herd in Wyoming, United States, Wikinews)

Jedediah Brodie, chair of conservation in the Wildlife Biology Program at the University of Montana, told VOA that overhunting in the tropics often drives large animals locally extinct but leaves smaller species like rodents.

(Thai Elephants Help Spread Jungle Fruit's Seeds, Sadie Witkowski/VOA)

The team, which includes researchers from Montana State University, Louisiana State University and Aberystwyth University in Wales, used a combination of measurements of methane concentrations and genomic analyses to describe how lake bacteria chemically convert methane in a way that reduces the warming potential of subglacial gases during ice sheet retreats.

(Methane-eating bacteria in lake deep beneath Antarctic ice sheet may reduce greenhouse gas emissions, National Science Foundation)

The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)