NEVADA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nevada mean? 

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

1. a state in the western United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEVADA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in the western United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Battle Born State; Nev.; Nevada; NV; Sagebrush State; Silver State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Nevada"):

Hoover Dam (a large dam built in 1933 on the Colorado River in Nevada)

Lake Mead (the largest reservoir in the United States; located in southeastern Nevada and northwestern Arizona and formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River; the center of a recreational area)

capital of Nevada; Carson City (capital of the state of Nevada; located in western Nevada)

Las Vegas (largest city in Nevada; located in southeastern Nevada; originally settled by Mormons but is now famous for entertainment and gambling and general excess)

Reno (a city in western Nevada at the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage)

Black Rock Desert (a desert in northwestern Nevada)

Death Valley (a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America)

Lake Tahoe (a lake on the border between Nevada and California to the west of Carson City; a popular resort area)

Colorado; Colorado River (an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States)

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

Southwest; southwestern United States (the southwestern region of the United States generally including New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, California, and sometimes Utah and Colorado)

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 team's conclusions about California and Nevada desert birds may apply to species in other regions of the world.

(Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress from climate change, National Science Foundation)

The company is reportedly also in contact with Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles about the possibility of testing the truck on the state’s roads.

(Tesla to Test Self-driving Electric Trucks, VOA News)

The team led by University of Wyoming (UW) scientists took samples of live pine needles in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

(Study reveals surprising role of dust in mountain ecosystems, National Science Foundation)

In Sierra Nevada, water is sown and harvested by means of the so-called acequias (irrigation channels) de careo.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)

By the time a tower reaches a height of 50 miles (80 kilometers), as seen during the 2018 global dust storm, it may be as wide as Nevada.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)

Scientists at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), who led an international research team in the study, created a synthetic version of a hydrogen-containing mineral known as whitlockite.

(New Evidence for A Water-Rich History on Mars, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Riebe and his team discovered, however, that expansion in rocks dominates the weathering process in the southern Sierra Nevada region.

(Study explores how rock expands near soil surface in Sierra Nevada, National Science Foundation)

The sheriff's office arranged for reinforcements from across Nevada.

(Millions don't turn up to 'storm' US airbase for extraterrestrial evidence, Wikinews)

The area in the United States comprised of the following states: Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona.

(Mountain States, NCI Thesaurus)

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)