SOUTH CAROLINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South Carolina mean? 

• SOUTH CAROLINA (noun)
  The noun SOUTH CAROLINA has 2 senses:

1. one of the British colonies that formed the United States

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

  Familiarity information: SOUTH CAROLINA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH CAROLINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the British colonies that formed the United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

Colony (one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States)

Sense 2

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 "South Carolina"):

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 ("South Carolina" 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 ("South Carolina" 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)

 Context examples 

It is a Medical University of South Carolina center.

(Hollings Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of islands in the North Atlantic Ocean, east of South Carolina.

(Bermuda, NCI Thesaurus)

“What was particularly striking about their environment was the amount of cocoa they consume, which was easily 10 times more than most of us would get in a typical day,” says Dr. Brent M. Egan, a researcher at the Medical University of South Carolina who studies the effect of chocolate on blood pressure.

(Can Chocolate Really Be Good for You?, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

During the eclipse on August 21, the moon will pass between the Earth and the sun, completely blocking the face of the sun and darkening skies all the way from Oregon on the West Coast to South Carolina on the East Coast.

(Perseid Meteor Shower Provides Opening Act for Solar Eclipse, VOA News)

The transistor was developed through tests and modelling carried out jointly by researchers from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, the University of Würzburg, Germany, and the University of South Carolina, United States.

(Transistor that mimics neurons developed, SciDev.Net)

Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) and University of South Carolina Beaufort, both in the United States, reported warming seas appear to decrease the efficacy of the chemical compounds that corals release into the water to defend themselves from bacteria and encroaching seaweed, but these losses may be mitigated if there are large numbers of hungry fish around.

(Voracious fish defend coral reefs against warming, Wikinews)

The mission of the Hollings Cancer Center is to reduce the cancer burden in South Carolina through high-quality patient care, research, professional education, and cancer prevention programs with a focus on reaching underserved populations.

(Hollings Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)