PRAIRIE STATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does Prairie State mean?
• PRAIRIE STATE (noun)
The noun PRAIRIE STATE has 1 sense:
1. a Midwest state in north-central United States
Familiarity information: PRAIRIE STATE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PRAIRIE STATE (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 "Prairie State"):
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)
Little Wabash; Little Wabash River (a river in eastern Illinois that flows southeastward to the Wabash River)
Holonyms ("Prairie 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))
