ILLINOIS

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Illinois mean? 

• ILLINOIS (noun)
  The noun ILLINOIS has 3 senses:

1. a Midwest state in north-central United States
2. a member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west
3. the Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami

  Familiarity information: ILLINOIS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ILLINOIS (noun)

Meaning:

A Midwest state in north-central United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

IL; Illinois; Land of Lincoln; Prairie State

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Illinois"):

Little Wabash; Little Wabash River (a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the Wabash River)

Illinois River (a river in Illinois that flows southwest to the Mississippi River)

Urbana (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Champaign)

capital of Illinois; Springfield (capital of the state of Illinois)

Rock Island (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River; site of a Union prison during the American Civil War)

Rockford (a city in northern Illinois)

Peoria (a city in central Illinois on the Illinois River)

Moline (a town in northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River)

East Saint Louis (a town in southwest Illinois on the Mississippi across from Saint Louis)

Decatur (a city in central Illinois; Abraham Lincoln practiced law here)

Chicago; Windy City (largest city in Illinois; a bustling Great Lakes port that extends 26 miles along the southwestern shoreline of Lake Michigan)

Champaign (a university town in east central Illinois adjoining Urbana)

Carbondale (a town in southern Illinois)

Cairo (a town at the southern tip of Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers)

Holonyms ("Illinois" 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))

Meaning:

A member of the Algonquian people formerly of Illinois and regions to the west

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Illinois" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquin (a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast)

Meaning:

The Algonquian language of the Illinois and Miami

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Illinois" is a kind of...):

Algonquian; Algonquian language; Algonquin (family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains)