S.C.

 Dictionary entry overview: What does S.C. mean? 

• S.C. (noun)
  The noun S.C. has 1 sense:

1. a state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies

  Familiarity information: S.C. used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• S.C. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in the Deep South; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Palmetto State; S.C.; SC; South Carolina

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "S.C."):

capital of South Carolina; Columbia (capital and largest city in South Carolina; located in central South Carolina)

Charleston (a port city in southeastern South Carolina)

Florence (a town in northeast South Carolina; transportation center)

Greenville (a town in northwest South Carolina in the Piedmont)

Pee Dee; Pee Dee River (a river that flows through central North Carolina and northeastern South Carolina to the Atlantic Ocean)

Savannah; Savannah River (a river in South Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic)

Domain member region:

battle of Cowpens; Cowpens (battle in the American Revolution; Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British)

Holonyms ("S.C." 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)

South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)

Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)

Carolina; Carolinas (the area of the states of North Carolina and South Carolina)

Holonyms ("S.C." is a member of...):

Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)