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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Oregon mean? 

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

1. a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OREGON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in northwestern United States on the Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Beaver State; OR; Ore.; Oregon

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Oregon"):

Pacific Northwest (a region of the northwestern United States usually including Washington and Oregon and sometimes southwestern British Columbia)

Crater Lake National Park (a national park in Oregon having the deepest lake in the United States in the crater of an extinct volcano)

Bend (a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range)

Eugene (a city in western Oregon on the Willamette River; site of a university)

Klamath Falls (a town in southern Oregon near the California border)

Medford (a town in southwestern Oregon; a summer resort)

Portland (freshwater port and largest city in Oregon; located in northwestern Oregon on the Willamette River which divides the city into east and west sections; renowned for its beautiful natural setting among the mountains)

capital of Oregon; Salem (capital of the state of Oregon in the northwestern part of the state on the Willamette River)

Klamath; Klamath River (a river flowing southwest from Oregon through northern California to the Pacific Ocean)

Snake; Snake River (a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition)

Willamette; Willamette River (a river in western Oregon that flows north into the Columbia River near Portland)

Holonyms ("Oregon" 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 

The study is an important advance in understanding how clays, specifically blue clay from Oregon, have shown medicinal properties by attaching to pathogenic bacteria.

(Clay fights MRSA, other 'superbugs' in wounds, National Science Foundation)

Oregon State University scientists led an international study that provides a road map as conservation managers consider the effects of forest edges on wildlife in setting up reserves.

(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)

A new study conducted at OHSU in Portland, Oregon, concludes that while individually unique, each connectotype demonstrates both familial and heritable relationships.

(Brain Activity Is Inherited, May Inform Treatment for ADHD, Autism, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

An antibiotic commonly found at low concentrations in the environment can have major impacts on gut bacteria, according to a study by a team of researchers at the University of Oregon.

(Impacts of low-dose exposure to antibiotics unveiled in zebrafish gut, National Science Foundation)

Another time the brown wanderer succeeded in traversing half the length of California, all of Oregon, and most of Washington, before he was picked up and returned "Collect."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Researchers from NOAA, Oregon State University, and the U.S. Coast Guard were surprised by how much they heard.

(Seven miles deep, the ocean is still a noisy place, NOAA)

After analyzing dozens of samples, the team identified a blue-colored clay from the Oregon Cascades that proved to be highly antibacterial.

(Scientists discover how blue and green clays kill bacteria, NSF)

A census division of the United States consisting of Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington.

(Pacific States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

The Oregon clays could lead to the discovery of new antibacterial mechanisms, she says, which would benefit the health care industry and people in developing nations.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

The area in the United States comprised of the following states: Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California and Hawaii.

(Pacific Coast States, NCI Thesaurus)