BLUEGRASS STATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Bluegrass State mean?
• BLUEGRASS STATE (noun)
The noun BLUEGRASS STATE has 1 sense:
1. a state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses
Familiarity information: BLUEGRASS STATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BLUEGRASS STATE (noun)
Meaning:
A state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Bluegrass State; Kentucky; KY
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Bluegrass State"):
Mammoth Cave National Park (a national park in Kentucky having a large cavern and an underground river)
Cumberland; Cumberland River (a river that rises in southeastern Kentucky and flows westward through northern Tennessee to become a tributary of the Ohio River in southwestern Kentucky)
Paducah (a town in western Kentucky on the Ohio River)
Owensboro (a town in northwestern Kentucky on the Ohio River; a tobacco market)
Louisville (the largest city in Kentucky; located in north central Kentucky on the Ohio river; site of the Kentucky Derby)
Lexington (a city in eastern Kentucky; noted for raising thoroughbred horses)
capital of Kentucky; Frankfort (the capital of Kentucky; located in northern Kentucky)
Bowling Green (a town in southern Kentucky)
Tennessee; Tennessee River (a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary of the Ohio River in western Kentucky)
Holonyms ("Bluegrass State" 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)
