NORTH DAKOTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Dakota mean? 

• NORTH DAKOTA (noun)
  The noun NORTH DAKOTA has 1 sense:

1. a state of north central United States bordering on Canada

  Familiarity information: NORTH DAKOTA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH DAKOTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of north central United States bordering on Canada

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

N.D.; ND; North Dakota; Peace Garden State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "North Dakota"):

Theodore Roosevelt Memorial National Park (a national park in North Dakota that includes the site of former President Theodore Roosevelt's ranch)

Bismarck; capital of North Dakota (capital of the state of North Dakota; located in south central North Dakota overlooking the Missouri river)

Fargo (largest city in North Dakota; located in eastern North Dakota on the Red river)

James; James River (a river that rises in North Dakota and flows southward across South Dakota to the Missouri)

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)

Holonyms ("North Dakota" 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)

Dakota (the area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota)

 Context examples 

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)

From 2007 until 2015, PASS Network researchers followed the outcomes of nearly 12,000 pregnancies among women from two residential areas in Cape Town, South Africa; and five sites in the U.S., including two American Indian Reservations in South Dakota and North Dakota.

(Combined prenatal smoking and drinking greatly increases SIDS risk, National Institutes of Health)

Just why these inventions were a source of satisfaction to James Gatz of North Dakota, isn't easy to say.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)