TAR HEEL STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tar Heel State mean? 

• TAR HEEL STATE (noun)
  The noun TAR HEEL STATE has 1 sense:

1. a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies

  Familiarity information: TAR HEEL STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TAR HEEL STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

N.C.; NC; North Carolina; Old North State; Tar Heel State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Tar Heel State"):

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

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (a national park in Tennessee and North Carolina that includes the highest mountain in the eastern United States)

Cape Fear River (a river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear)

Blue Ridge; Blue Ridge Mountains (a range of the Appalachians extending from southern Pennsylvania to northern Georgia)

Winston-Salem (a city of north central North Carolina)

Wilmington (a town in southeastern North Carolina on the Cape Fear River)

Greenville (a city in eastern North Carolina; tobacco market)

Greensboro (a city of north central North Carolina)

Goldsboro (a town that is a major tobacco center in eastern North Carolina)

Fayetteville (a town in south central North Carolina)

Durham (a city of north central North Carolina; site of Duke University)

Charlotte; Queen City (the largest city in North Carolina; located in south central North Carolina)

Chapel Hill (a town in central North Carolina; site of the University of North Carolina)

Asheville (a town in western North Carolina in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west of Charlotte)

capital of North Carolina; Raleigh (capital of the state of North Carolina; located in the east central part of the North Carolina)

Hatteras Island (a barrier island running parallel to the North Carolina shore)

Cape Hatteras (a promontory on Hatteras Island off the Atlantic coast of North Carolina)

Cape Fear (a cape in southeastern North Carolina extending into the Atlantic Ocean)

Holonyms ("Tar Heel State" 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)

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

Holonyms ("Tar Heel State" 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)