WI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does WI mean? 

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

1. a midwestern state in north central United States

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A midwestern state in north central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Badger State; WI; Wis.; Wisc.; Wisconsin

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "WI"):

Appleton (a town in eastern Wisconsin)

Eau Claire (a town in west central Wisconsin)

Green Bay (a city of eastern Wisconsin on an arm of Lake Michigan)

La Crosse (a town in western Wisconsin on the Mississippi River)

capital of Wisconsin; Madison (capital of the state of Wisconsin; located in the southern part of state; site of the main branch of the University of Wisconsin)

Milwaukee (largest city of Wisconsin; located in southeastern Wisconsin on the western shore of Lake Michigan; a flourishing agricultural center known for its breweries)

Racine (a city in southeastern Wisconsin on Lake Michigan to the south of Milwaukee)

Superior (a town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth)

Watertown (a town in southeastern Wisconsin)

Wausau (a town in north central Wisconsin)

Fox River (a river in Wisconsin that flows into Lake Michigan)

Wisconsin; Wisconsin River (a tributary of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin)

Holonyms ("WI" is a part of...):

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))

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 

“Well, sir, if you can make out here, fur a fortnut, 'long wi' her,” nodding at his sister, “and Ham, and little Em'ly, we shall be proud of your company.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Ah, childer!" said she, "it fair troubles me to go into yond' room now: it looks so lonesome wi' the chair empty and set back in a corner."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We ran by Gibraltar wi'oot bein' able to signal; an' till we came to the Dardanelles and had to wait to get our permit to pass, we never were within hail o' aught.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then perhaps canst tell me the name of a great loathly lump of a brother wi' freckled face an' a hand like a spade.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Man! he said, but it made us afeard, for we expeckit that we should have to pay for it wi' some rare piece o' ill luck, so as to keep up the average.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I had my thowts o' coming to make inquiration for you, sir, tonight, he said, but knowing as your aunt was living along wi' you—fur I've been down yonder—Yarmouth way—I was afeerd it was too late.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Marsh End had belonged to the Rivers ever since it was a house: and it was, she affirmed, aboon two hundred year old—for all it looked but a small, humble place, naught to compare wi' Mr. Oliver's grand hall down i' Morton Vale.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It's no canny to run frae London to the Black Sea wi' a wind ahint ye, as though the Deil himself were blawin' on yer sail for his ain purpose.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We didn't do much clearin' that day, an' had to remain the nicht at anchor; but in the mornin', braw an' airly, an hour before sun-up, a man came aboard wi' an order, written to him from England, to receive a box marked for one Count Dracula.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

If we had a quick voyage it would be no to our miscredit wi' the owners, or no hurt to our traffic; an' the Old Mon who had served his ain purpose wad be decently grateful to us for no hinderin' him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)