EQUALITY STATE

Pronunciation (US):

• EQUALITY STATE (noun)
  The noun EQUALITY STATE has 1 sense:

1. a state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east

  Familiarity information: EQUALITY STATE used as a noun is very rare.

• EQUALITY STATE (noun)

Meaning:

A state in the western United States; mountainous in the west and north with the Great Plains in the east

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Equality State; WY; Wyoming

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Equality State"):

Grand Teton National Park (a national park in Wyoming featuring mountains)

Black Hills (mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore)

Green; Green River (a river that rises in western Wyoming and flows southward through Utah to become a tributary of the Colorado River)

Little Bighorn; Little Bighorn River; Little Horn (a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand)

Little Missouri; Little Missouri River (a river that rises in northeastern Wyoming and flows through Montana and South Dakota to join the Missouri River in North Dakota)

North Platte; North Platte River (a river that rises in northern Colorado and flows northward into Wyoming and then eastward and southeastward through Nebraska where it joins the South Platte to form the Platte River)

Snake; Snake River (a tributary of the Columbia River that rises in Wyoming and flows westward; discovered in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition)

Teton Range (a mountain range in northwest Wyoming; contains the Grand Teton)

Bighorn; Bighorn River (a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana)

Rock Springs (a town of southwest Wyoming near the Utah border)

Laramie (a university town in southeast Wyoming)

Lander (a town in central Wyoming)

Jackson (a town in western Wyoming)

capital of Wyoming; Cheyenne (the capital and largest city of Wyoming; located in the southeastern corner of the state)

Casper (a city of east central Wyoming on the North Platte river)

Black Hills (mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming)

Yellowstone National Park (the first national park in the United States; located in the border area between Wyoming and Montana and Idaho; spectacular wilderness; famous for Old Faithful geyser and for buffalo and bears)

Yellowstone; Yellowstone River (a tributary of the Missouri River that flows through the Yellowstone National Park)

Holonyms ("Equality 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)