UTAH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Utah mean? 

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

1. a state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UTAH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in the western United States; settled in 1847 by Mormons led by Brigham Young

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Beehive State; Mormon State; UT; Ut.; Utah

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Utah"):

Lake Powell (the second largest reservoir in the United States; located in southern Utah and north central Arizona and formed by the Glen Canyon Dam on the Colorado River)

Mormon Tabernacle; Tabernacle (the Mormon temple)

Arches National Park (a national park in Utah including mountains and the Colorado River gorge and huge rock formations caused by erosion)

Bryce Canyon National Park (a national park in Utah having multicolored rock erosions)

Canyonlands National Park (a national park in Utah having rock formations and ancient cliff dwellings; canyons of the Green River and the Colorado River)

Capitol Reef National Park (a national park in Utah having colorful rock formations and desert plants and wildlife)

Zion National Park (a national park in Utah having huge canyons and gorges carved by mountain rivers)

Ogden (a town in northern Utah settled by Mormons)

Provo (a city in north central Utah settled by Mormons)

capital of Utah; Salt Lake City (the capital and largest city of Utah; located near the Great Salt Lake in north central Utah; world capital of the Mormon Church)

Colorado; Colorado River (an important river in the southwestern United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of northern Colorado and flows southwest through Utah into Arizona (where it flows through the Grand Canyon) and then southward through the southern tip of Nevada, then forming the border between California and Arizona and finally into Mexico where it empties into the Gulf of California; the main source of water in the southwestern United States)

Colorado Plateau (a large plateau to the south and west of the Rocky Mountains; abuts mountains on the north and east and ends in an escarpment overlooking lowlands to the south and west; the Grand Canyon is carved out of the southwestern corner)

Great Salt Lake (a shallow body of salt water in northwestern Utah)

Green; Green River (a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River)

Holonyms ("Utah" 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 University of Utah researchers began their examination of the Arc gene by introducing it into bacterial cells.

(Memory gene goes viral, National Institutes of Health)

The study was led by Sarah Lambart, a geologist at the University of Utah.

(Earth's mantle looks like a painting, National Science Foundation)

A team of University of Utah seismologists has discovered a reservoir of hot, partly molten rock hidden 12 to 28 miles beneath Yellowstone's supervolcano.

(Yellowstone magma discovery, NSF)

Geoscientist Jeff Moore of the University of Utah uses recordings of the vibrations to study the arches' structural stability.

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

At those small scales, according to University of Utah chemist and study co-author Valeria Molinero, the transition between ice and water gets a little fuzzy.

(Scientists probe the limits of ice, National Science Foundation)

The area in the United States comprised of the following states: Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona.

(Mountain States, NCI Thesaurus)

But University of Utah biologist Colleen Farmer and colleagues discovered that alligators and iguanas also have a unidirectional air flow pattern.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)

A census division of the United States consisting of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

(Mountain States Census Division, NCI Thesaurus)

The Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah has a mission to understand cancer from its beginnings, to use that knowledge in the creation and improvement of new treatments, to relieve the suffering of cancer patients, and to provide education about cancer risk, prevention, and care.

(Huntsman Cancer Institute, NCI Thesaurus)

New research led by University of Utah biologists William Anderegg, Anna Trugman and David Bowling finds that some plants and trees are prolific spendthrifts in drought conditions, using precious soil water to cool themselves and, in the process, making droughts more intense.

(How trees affect the weather, National Science Foundation)