noun
a state in southeastern United States; one of the original 13 colonies
• Syn: ↑North Carolina, ↑Tar Heel State, ↑NC
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑American state
• Member Holonyms: ↑Confederacy, ↑Confederate States, ↑Confederate States of America, ↑South, ↑Dixie, ↑Dixieland
• Part Holonyms:
↑United States, ↑United States of America, ↑America, ↑the States, ↑US, ↑U.S., ↑USA, ↑U.S.A., ↑South, ↑Carolina, ↑Carolinas
• Part Meronyms:
↑Great Smoky Mountains National Park, ↑Cape Fear, ↑Cape Hatteras, ↑Hatteras Island, ↑Raleigh, ↑capital of North Carolina, ↑Asheville, ↑Chapel Hill, ↑Charlotte, ↑Queen City, ↑Durham, ↑Fayetteville, ↑Goldsboro, ↑Greensboro, ↑Greenville, ↑Wilmington, ↑Winston-Salem, ↑Blue Ridge Mountains, ↑Blue Ridge, ↑Cape Fear River, ↑Pee Dee, ↑Pee Dee River
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Old North State,
a nickname of North Carolina.
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a nickname for the state of North Carolina
Useful english dictionary. 2012.