GREAT LAKES STATE

Pronunciation (US):

• GREAT LAKES STATE (noun)
  The noun GREAT LAKES STATE has 1 sense:

1. a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

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

• GREAT LAKES STATE (noun)

Meaning:

A midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Great Lakes State; Michigan; Wolverine State; MI

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Great Lakes State"):

Mackinac Bridge (a suspension bridge across the channel between the lower and upper peninsulas of Michigan)

Marquette (a town on Lake Superior on the Upper Peninsula in northwest Michigan)

Monroe (a town of southeast Michigan on Lake Erie)

Traverse City (a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Michigan)

Detroit River (a short river flowing from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie along the border between the United States and Canada; one the busiest inland waterways in the world)

Grand River (a river in southern Michigan that flows northwest to empty into Lake Michigan)

Lake Saint Clair; Lake St. Clair (a lake between Ontario and Michigan; connected with Lake Huron and Lake Erie)

Lower Peninsula (the part of northern Michigan between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron)

capital of Michigan; Lansing (capital of the state of Michigan; located in southern Michigan on the Grand River)

Jackson (a town in south central Michigan)

Houghton (a town in northwest Michigan on the Upper Peninsula)

Grand Rapids (a city in west central Michigan; noted for manufacturing furniture)

Flint (a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing)

Detroit; Motor City; Motown (the largest city in Michigan and a major Great Lakes port; center of the United States automobile industry; located in southeastern Michigan on the Detroit river across from Windsor)

Ann Arbor (a city in southern Michigan near Detroit; site of the University of Michigan)

Alpena (a town in northern Michigan on an arm of Lake Huron)

Isle Royal National Park (a national park on an island in Michigan; includes prehistoric iron mines)

Upper Peninsula (the peninsula between Lake Superior and Lake Michigan that forms the northwestern part of Michigan)

Holonyms ("Great Lakes State" is a part of...):

middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))