NORTH STAR STATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does North Star State mean?
• NORTH STAR STATE (noun)
The noun NORTH STAR STATE has 1 sense:
1. a midwestern state
Familiarity information: NORTH STAR STATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• NORTH STAR STATE (noun)
Meaning:
A midwestern state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Gopher State; Minnesota; North Star State; MN
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "North Star State"):
Voyageurs National Park (a national park in Minnesota having ancient rock outcroppings and evergreen forests)
Little Sioux River (a river that rises in southwestern Minnesota and flows southwestward to the Missouri River in western Iowa)
Virginia (a town in northeastern Minnesota in the heart of the Mesabi Range)
capital of Minnesota; Saint Paul; St. Paul (capital of the state of Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river adjacent to Minneapolis; one of the Twin Cities)
Saint Cloud; St. Cloud (a town in central Minnesota on the Mississippi River; granite quarries)
Rochester (a town in southeast Minnesota)
Minneapolis (largest city in Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river; noted for flour mills; one of the Twin Cities)
Mankato (a town in southern Minnesota)
Hibbing (a town in northeastern Minnesota in the Mesabi Range)
Duluth (a city in northeast Minnesota on Lake Superior)
Bemidji (a town in northern Minnesota)
Mesabi Range (a range of hills in northeastern Minnesota where rich iron ore deposits were discovered in 1887)
Holonyms ("North Star 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))
