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Missouri
[ mi-zoor-ee, -zoor-uh ]
noun
- a state in the central United States. 69,674 sq. mi. (180,455 sq. km). : Jefferson City. : MO (for use with zip code), Mo.
- a river flowing from SW Montana into the Mississippi N of St. Louis, Mo. 2,723 miles (4,382 km) long.
- a member of a North American Indian tribe belonging to the Siouan linguistic stock, located on the Missouri River in early historic times and now extinct as a tribe.
Missouri
/ ³¾ÉªËˆ³úÊŠÉ™°ùɪ /
noun
- a state of the central US: consists of rolling prairies in the north, the Ozark Mountains in the south, and part of the Mississippi flood plain in the southeast, with the Mississippi forming the E border; chief US producer of lead and barytes. Capital: Jefferson City. Pop: 5Â 704Â 484 (2003 est). Area: 178Â 699 sq km (68Â 995 sq miles) AbbreviationMowith zip codeMO
- a river in the W and central US, rising in SW Montana: flows north, east, and southeast to join the Mississippi above St Louis; the longest river in North America; chief tributary of the Mississippi. Length: 3970 km (2466 miles)
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Idioms and Phrases
- from Missouri, Informal. unwilling to accept something without proof; skeptical:
I'm from Missouri—you'll have to show me that you're right.
More idioms and phrases containing Missouri
see from Missouri .Example Sentences
“He speaks his mind. He’s great,†my favorite Missouri in-law tells me.
They included catered events in Missouri, an Ohio school, an Indiana restaurant, an Illinois restaurant and an Illinois catered event, per Food Safety News.
Other deaths have included a man and his teenaged daughter in Tennessee and a 68-year-old man in Missouri who reportedly stopped to help a stranded driver.
Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Missouri this week authorized 23andMe to sell substantially all of its assets, including its database of genetic information.
Kansas City Chiefs: G Armand Membou, Missouri — It was musical chairs on the Kansas City offensive line at the end of last season.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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