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HOOSIER STATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in midwestern United States
Synonyms:
Hoosier State; IN; Ind.; Indiana
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
American state (one of the 50 states of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Hoosier State"):
Bloomington (a university town in south central Indiana)
Evansville (a city in southwestern Indiana on the Ohio River)
Fort Wayne (a city in northeastern Indiana)
Gary (a city in northwest Indiana on Lake Michigan; steel production)
capital of Indiana; Indianapolis (the capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commercial center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race)
Lafayette (a university town in west central Indiana on the Wabash River)
Muncie (a town in east central Indiana)
South Bend (a city in northern Indiana)
Wabash; Wabash River (a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in western Ohio and flows southwestward across Indiana)
Holonyms ("Hoosier State" is a part of...):
Corn Belt (the midwestern states in the U.S. where corn is grown; Iowa and Illinois are excellent for raising corn and corn-fed livestock)
middle west; Midwest; midwestern United States (the north central region of the United States (sometimes called the heartland or the breadbasket of America))
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)