noun
1. a state in midwestern United States (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑Sunflower State, ↑KS
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑American state
• Part Holonyms:
↑United States, ↑United States of America, ↑America, ↑the States, ↑US, ↑U.S., ↑USA, ↑U.S.A., ↑Midwest, ↑middle west, ↑midwestern United States
• Part Meronyms:
↑Chisholm Trail, ↑Dodge City, ↑Abilene, ↑Hays, ↑Kansas City, ↑Lawrence, ↑Salina, ↑Topeka, ↑capital of Kansas, ↑Wichita, ↑Arkansas, ↑Arkansas River, ↑Kansas River, ↑Kaw River, ↑Neosho, ↑Neosho River, ↑Republican, ↑Republican River
2. a member of the Siouan people of the Kansas river valley in Kansas
• Syn: ↑Kansa
• Hypernyms: ↑Dhegiha
3. a river in northeastern Kansas; flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River
• Syn: ↑Kansas River, ↑Kaw River
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑river
• Part Holonyms: ↑Sunflower State, ↑KS
4. the Dhegiha dialect spoken by the Kansa
• Syn: ↑Kansa
• Hypernyms: ↑Dhegiha
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Kansas [Kansas]
a US state in the ↑Middle West, the most central of all the states. It forms part of the ↑Great Plains and suffered badly during the ↑Dust Bowl years. Its popular name is the Sunflower State. The capital city is Topeka, and the largest cities are Wichita, Overland Park and ↑Kansas City. Kansas was part of the ↑Louisiana Purchase and became a state in 1861. Its main products include wheat, corn, ↑cattle, oil, salt and ↑helium (= a gas used to fill balloons and to freeze things).
See also ↑Kansas-Nebraska Act
Useful english dictionary. 2012.