missouri
IPA: mʌzˈʊri
Root Word: Missouri
noun
- A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital: Jefferson City. Largest city: Kansas City.
- The longest river in North America, rising in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana and flowing roughly southeast over 2,300 miles through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri, before joining the Mississippi at St. Louis.
- An indigenous Siouan tribe that originally lived in the Great Lakes region of United States.
- (historical) A massive former territory (1812–1821) of the United States, comprising much of the Great Plains and Midwestern regions.
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Examples of "missouri" in Sentences
- It was so warm during the rut here in missouri that a lot people thought we missed it.
- I used to have a honey hole of them in missouri, I found them one year and they were there every year.
- Yes | No | Report from micneador wrote 28 weeks 1 day ago in missouri you can only use one but i never use more than one any way
- Yes | No | Report from micneador wrote 25 weeks 2 days ago in missouri you can only use one but i never use more than one any way
- Under the ccw law in missouri it is against that very law to have a gun in your posession while intoxicated. and it is NOT based on a blood alcohol level like when you are driving.
- Yes | No | Report from Chris Carpenter wrote 28 weeks 6 days ago its illegal in missouri and i think its total bullcrap and unethical to do so. my friend put his lastr doe tag last year on a doe him and my brother both shot because my brother didnt have a tag, he was pretty pissed.
- Missouri first widens into an extensive plain after entering the rockey mountains. the guide informed us that a man might pass to the missouri from hence by that rout in four days. we continued our rout down the W. side of the river about 5 miles further and encamped on a large creek which falls in on the West as our guide informes that we should leave the river at this place and the weather appearing settled and fair I determined to halt the next day rest our horses and take some scelestial Observations. we called this Creek Travellers rest. it is about 20 yards wide a fine bould clear runing stream the land through which we passed is but indifferent a could white gravley soil. we estimate our journey of this day at 19 M. [Clark, September 9, 1805]
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