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Dictionary entry overview: What does IA mean?

• IA (noun)
The noun IA has 1 sense:

1. a state in midwestern United States

Familiarity information: IA used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• IA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A state in midwestern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Hawkeye State; IA; Iowa

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "IA"):

Sioux City (a city in northeastern Iowa where the Big Sioux River joins the Missouri)

Ottumwa (a town in southeast Iowa)

Mason City (a town in north central Iowa)

Dubuque (a town in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River)

capital of Iowa; Des Moines (the capital and largest city in Iowa)

Clinton (a town in east central Iowa)

Cedar Rapids (a city in eastern Iowa)

Davenport (a city in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River across from Moline and Rock Island)

Little Sioux River (a river that rises in southwestern Minnesota and flows southwestward to the Missouri River in western Iowa)

Holonyms ("IA" 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))

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