NEBRASKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nebraska mean? 

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

1. a midwestern state on the Great Plains

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEBRASKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midwestern state on the Great Plains

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Cornhusker State; NE; Neb.; Nebraska

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Nebraska"):

Bad Lands; Badlands (an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska)

Grand Island (a town in south central Nebraska)

capital of Nebraska; Lincoln (capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska)

North Platte (a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River)

Omaha (largest city in Nebraska; located in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri river; a major transportation center of the Midwest)

North Platte; North Platte River (a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River)

Platte; Platte River (a river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River)

Republican; Republican River (a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas)

South Platte; South Platte River (a tributary of the Platte River)

Holonyms ("Nebraska" 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)

 Context examples 

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

(Central Midwest States, NCI Thesaurus)

The Center incorporates the expertise and resources from the colleges and institutes at the University of Nebraska Medical Center as well as its affiliated hospital, The Nebraska Medical Center.

(Eppley Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

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)

A research team led by Drs. Jerod S. Denton of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Peter M. Piermarini of Ohio State University, and Corey Hopkins of the University of Nebraska Medical Center set out to develop a new class of insecticides that target the mosquito kidney.

(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)

Results of a University of Nebraska Medical Center study found if the standard supplementation of 400 IUs of vitamin D is increased to 800 IUs daily there are reductions in the number of premature and preterm babies with extremely low bone density.

(Higher Dose of Vitamin D Increases Bone Density in Premature Babies, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Infant deaths from sepsis (bacterial infection of the blood) can be reduced almost by half with doses of healthy gut bacteria, according to the results of a randomised trial conducted in India’s Odisha state by researchers at the College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center in the United States.

(Friendly gut bacteria can help fight infant deaths, SciDev.Net )