INDIANA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Indiana mean?
• INDIANA (noun)
The noun INDIANA has 1 sense:
1. a state in midwestern United States
Familiarity information: INDIANA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• INDIANA (noun)
Meaning:
A state in midwestern United States
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Hoosier State; Indiana; IN
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Indiana"):
South Bend (a city in northern Indiana)
Muncie (a town in east central Indiana)
Lafayette (a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River)
capital of Indiana; Indianapolis (the capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commercial center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race)
Gary (a city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan; steel production)
Fort Wayne (a city in northeastern Indiana)
Evansville (a city in southwestern Indiana on the Ohio River)
Bloomington (a university town in south central Indiana)
Wabash; Wabash River (a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana)
Holonyms ("Indiana" 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))
