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GA.
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in southeastern United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
Synonyms:
Empire State of the South; GA; Ga.; Georgia; Peach State
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Ga."):
Tallapoosa; Tallapoosa River (river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through central Alabama to join the Coosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River)
Okefenokee Swamp (a large swampy area of northeast Florida and southeast Georgia)
Flint; Flint River (a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River)
Coosa; Coosa River (river that rises in northwestern Georgia and flows southwest through eastern Alabama to join the Tallapoosa River near Montgomery and form the Alabama River)
Chattahoochee; Chattahoochee River (a river rising in northern Georgia and flowing southwest and south to join the Flint River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River)
Vidalia (a town in central Georgia; the origin of Vidalia onions)
Valdosta (a town in southern Georgia near the Florida border)
Savannah (a port in eastern Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah river)
Oxford (a university town in northern Mississippi; home of William Faulkner)
Macon (a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta)
Augusta (a city in eastern Georgia north-northwest of Savannah; noted for golf tournaments)
Athens (a university town in northeast Georgia)
Atlanta; capital of Georgia (state capital and largest city of Georgia; chief commercial center of the southeastern United States; was plundered and burned by Sherman's army during the American Civil War)
Albany (a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans)
Domain member region:
Kennesaw Mountain (battle of the American Civil War (1864); Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston)
Holonyms ("Ga." is a part of...):
America; the States; U.S.; U.S.A.; United States; United States of America; US; USA (North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776)
South (the region of the United States lying to the south of the Mason-Dixon line)
Deep South (the southeastern region of the United States: South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana; prior to the American Civil War all these states produced cotton and permitted slavery)
Holonyms ("Ga." is a member of...):
Confederacy; Confederate States; Confederate States of America; Dixie; Dixieland; South (the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861)
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