RI
Dictionary entry overview: What does RI mean?
• RI (noun)
The noun RI has 1 sense:
1. a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state
Familiarity information: RI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• RI (noun)
Meaning:
A state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies; the smallest state
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Little Rhody; Ocean State; Rhode Island; RI
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "RI"):
Brown; Brown University (a university in Rhode Island)
capital of Rhode Island; Providence (the capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University)
Newport (a resort city in southeastern Rhode Island; known for the summer homes of millionaires; important yachting center)
Narragansett Bay (a deep inlet of the Atlantic Ocean in Rhode Island)
Domain member region:
Shawnee cake (form of johnnycake)
Holonyms ("RI" is a part of...):
New England (a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut)