OKLAHOMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oklahoma mean? 

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

1. a state in south central United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OKLAHOMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in south central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

OK; Okla.; Oklahoma; Sooner State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Oklahoma"):

Platt National Park (a national park in Oklahoma having mineral springs)

Bartlesville (a town in northeastern Oklahoma)

Enid (a town in north central Oklahoma)

Lawton (a town in southwest Oklahoma)

McAlester (a town in southeastern Oklahoma)

Muskogee (a town in eastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas River)

capital of Oklahoma; Oklahoma City (capital and largest city of Oklahoma; the economy is based on oil and livestock)

Tulsa (a major city of northeastern Oklahoma on the Arkansas river; once known as the oil capital of the world and still heavily involved in the oil and gas industries)

Arkansas; Arkansas River (a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River)

Canadian; Canadian River (a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma)

Cimarron; Cimarron River (a river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River)

Llano Estacado (a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains)

Neosho; Neosho River (a river that rises in eastern Kansas and flows eastward into Oklahoma to become a tributary of the Arkansas River)

Red; Red River (a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows eastward from Texas along the southern boundary of Oklahoma and through Louisiana)

Holonyms ("Oklahoma" 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 

As the number of droughts increases globally, scientists from Oklahoma State University are working to develop predictions of how future parched conditions will affect plants, especially trees.

(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)

Seismic sources as close as Lake Powell (on the border of Utah and Arizona) and as far away as Oklahoma caused vibrations in the bridge.

(Song of the red rock arches, National Science Foundation)

In contrast, weak La Niñas led to April outbreaks throughout the South, particularly in Oklahoma and Kansas, while strong La Niñas led to April outbreaks along the Ohio Valley and in the Southeast and Upper Midwest.

(Ocean temperatures may hold key to predicting tornado outbreaks, NOAA)