NEBRASKA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Nebraska mean?
• NEBRASKA (noun)
The noun NEBRASKA has 1 sense:
1. a midwestern state on the Great Plains
Familiarity information: NEBRASKA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NEBRASKA (noun)
Meaning:
A midwestern state on the Great Plains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Cornhusker State; Nebraska; NE
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Nebraska"):
Bad Lands; Badlands (an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska)
Republican; Republican River (a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas)
Platte; Platte River (a river in Nebraska that flows eastward to become a tributary of the Missouri River)
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)
Omaha (largest city in Nebraska; located in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri river; a major transportation center of the Midwest)
North Platte (a town in west central Nebraska on the Platte River)
capital of Nebraska; Lincoln (capital of the state of Nebraska; located in southeastern Nebraska; site of the University of Nebraska)
Grand Island (a town in south central Nebraska)
South Platte; South Platte River (a tributary of the Platte River)
Holonyms ("Nebraska" 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))
